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If the US is Jurassic Park, what was the place you came from?

by Jach 5y ago

xwdv 5y ago
The Matrix.
john_moscow 5y ago
You'd be surprised, but many Western European countries have a concept of being decent, sense of duty, etc. While the modus operandi in the U.S. seems to be "go for it, as long as you can get away without getting jailed or sued". On the other hand, the European culture pushes back quite heavily towards fitting in and against entrepreneurship, so neither of them is perfect.
- bitcharmer 5y ago
  > On the other hand, the European culture pushes back quite heavily towards fitting in and against entrepreneurship, so neither of them is perfect. I've lived in Europe (a few different countries) over 40 years. What your saying is simply not true.
  - john_moscow 5y ago
    Lived in Western Europe for a while. Most innovative small businesses I've seen involved fudging the numbers in some way to get government grants.
  - kortilla 5y ago
    Then where are all of the innovative companies? Europe has a massive drain brain problem because it absolutely does not reward innovation in any business sense.
bitcharmer 5y ago
I'm guessing they are from some place where people can live their lives without having to worry about that as much. Europe?
- frockington1 5y ago
  Europe's national bonds are currently yielding negative while their inflation is soaring. Europe makes America look like controlled spending so probably not there. Could be a smaller and more sheltered nation like Monaco or Switzerland
Jach 5y ago
In case mmaunder comes back to reply soon, what I'm getting at that the other replies don't seem to address is what metaphor do you use for where you came from? The reason is because the idea of immigrating to Jurassic Park seems crazy to me unless you're in a much crazier spot already. To me Jurassic Park is something you might want to visit if you really like dinosaurs and get a thrill from danger, but not live in. Technically I do live "in the park" but while I don't see it as such I have occasionally thought about going elsewhere, so it'd be nice to have another data point in places to avoid/why. Is it simply that there's no other place with dinosaurs? (Perhaps dinosaurs being a metaphor for entrepreneur opportunities as replies are hinting at? Though I don't think you're getting at that since you ride them all off as monsters with one of the iconic dinos being "debt" rather than an opportunity.)

If the US is Jurassic Park, what was the place you came from?

by Jach 5y ago

If the US is Jurassic Park, what was the place you came from?

xwdv 5y ago

The Matrix.

john_moscow 5y ago

You'd be surprised, but many Western European countries have a concept of being decent, sense of duty, etc. While the modus operandi in the U.S. seems to be "go for it, as long as you can get away without getting jailed or sued". On the other hand, the European culture pushes back quite heavily towards fitting in and against entrepreneurship, so neither of them is perfect.

bitcharmer 5y ago
> On the other hand, the European culture pushes back quite heavily towards fitting in and against entrepreneurship, so neither of them is perfect. I've lived in Europe (a few different countries) over 40 years. What your saying is simply not true.
- john_moscow 5y ago
  Lived in Western Europe for a while. Most innovative small businesses I've seen involved fudging the numbers in some way to get government grants.
- kortilla 5y ago
  Then where are all of the innovative companies? Europe has a massive drain brain problem because it absolutely does not reward innovation in any business sense.

bitcharmer 5y ago

I'm guessing they are from some place where people can live their lives without having to worry about that as much. Europe?

frockington1 5y ago
Europe's national bonds are currently yielding negative while their inflation is soaring. Europe makes America look like controlled spending so probably not there. Could be a smaller and more sheltered nation like Monaco or Switzerland

Jach 5y ago

In case mmaunder comes back to reply soon, what I'm getting at that the other replies don't seem to address is what metaphor do you use for where you came from? The reason is because the idea of immigrating to Jurassic Park seems crazy to me unless you're in a much crazier spot already. To me Jurassic Park is something you might want to visit if you really like dinosaurs and get a thrill from danger, but not live in. Technically I do live "in the park" but while I don't see it as such I have occasionally thought about going elsewhere, so it'd be nice to have another data point in places to avoid/why. Is it simply that there's no other place with dinosaurs? (Perhaps dinosaurs being a metaphor for entrepreneur opportunities as replies are hinting at? Though I don't think you're getting at that since you ride them all off as monsters with one of the iconic dinos being "debt" rather than an opportunity.)