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Ok great you argued the EU is hypocritical when it comes to large local companies. I still don't see how encouraging competition and interoperability in the sma
by alwayseasy 5y ago
Ok great you argued the EU is hypocritical when it comes to large local companies.
I still don't see how encouraging competition and interoperability in the smartphone and electronics market is a problem... except for Apple's margins.
If Switzerland is your model, I'm even more confused about how you could be against a liberal economy using protectionist measures against an American company.
- rglullis 5y ago> I still don't see how encouraging competition They are not encouraging anything. They are just playing a power game to see who can jerk more the other around. In the process, they create costs and bureaucratic obstacles that make it easier for any smaller player to have any chance of entering the market competitively. > liberal economy using protectionist measures Because it is a problem with the scale. There is not one economy in the EU states. There are many. By trying to apply a top-level, centralized solution to all member states, it ends up creating sub-optimal solutions for everyone. Or worse, it executes the decisions that benefits the member states with most power: Germany and France. Systems that are designed bottom-up are more robust, have a more diverse set of tools to solve their problems and fail in more localized, controlled ways. Tell me how many times has Switzerland got into some kind of deep systemic crisis. Now do the same with similarly small countries that are in the EU.