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It won't happen. EU bureaucracy just likes to travel from one capital to another and enjoying 5 star comfort pretending to be extremely busy completely disconne
by md9001 5y ago
It won't happen. EU bureaucracy just likes to travel from one capital to another and enjoying 5 star comfort pretending to be extremely busy completely disconnected from reality.
Its not that they haven't poured in huge amounts of cash into science and tech. Its that its all gone into building ivory towers even more disconnected from reality. So the people in those ivory towers have no clue how to compete in a ruthless world.
When someone just gets cash grants without loosing sweet and blood how the fuck are they supposed to compete with people around the world who have that experience?
- tester34 5y ago(real question) aren't e.g Tesla, SpaceX, NASA, Boeing using govt money too?
- Ralfp 5y agoIn fact they are: SpaceX does gov contracts for US defense and NASA. Tesla is selling their carbon credits to other companies. NASA is gov agency. Boeing is doing both defense and civilian contracts for US gov.
- dgellow 5y agoRegarding Tesla, it's even their main source of revenue! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/01/teslas-dirty-little-secret-its-net-profit-doesnt-come-from-selling-cars/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/01/teslas-dirty-little-s...
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- dieortin 5y agoI’d say Airbus is competing quite well, Boeing not so much.
- throwaway12509 5y agoNeither Airbus nor Boeing has initiated a new aircraft design since the late 90s early 2000s with the A380 and 787 respectively. The A220, a legitimate clean-sheet and fantastic aircraft, came from Bombardier and only fell into Airbus hands due to regulatory warfare, albeit from the American side this time.
- delroth 5y agoDid you mean A350 rather than A380?
- bsedlm 5y ago> When someone just gets cash grants without loosing sweet and blood how the fuck are they supposed to compete with people around the world who have that experience? Somehow, "market forces" (in a certain not-literal sense) where supposed to take care of this. In an honest marketplace there exists a level of competition which keeps the participants honest. Back when knowledge still needed a physical merchandise-like form to be transferred (even as printed books) this market-given-honesty pattern still somewhat worked. But the modern digital age has completely broken this. There's just something fundamentally different about "cognitive commodities" (i.e. digital data) and "merchandise" (i.e. goods with physical exclusiveness) which completely changes things