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You mean you cant do innovation without dumping the cost on society. Someone is paying for the price difference.
by FranzFerdiNaN 4y ago
You mean you cant do innovation without dumping the cost on society. Someone is paying for the price difference.
- simonh 4y agoNobody is willing to pay the price difference, that's why scaling up big tech in Europe natively doesn't happen. If someone were paying it, then we would have big tech natively in Europe, and we haven't.
- ElCheapo 4y agoCould you give an example of a technology that needs to be scaled up in Europe?
- simonh 4y agoCompetitors to Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon/AWS, Netflix. The only thing we have that's even vaguely comparable that started in Europe is Spotify and it's 1/3 the size of Netflix, which itself is the smallest of the US tech giants.
- ElCheapo 4y agoYou have listed many companies that do many different things so I don't really know what you mean. But in any case, how would a natively European competitor benefit Europe? Are we talking about money, jobs or what exactly?
- simonh 4y agoMoney, jobs, IP, skills, influence. As I pointed out in another thread, Europe loses a lot of top IT/CS graduates to the US every year because they can earn 3x to 5x the money.
- cloutchaser 4y agoThere's a lot of examples of tech unicorns that have no negative effect on society, yet were all created in either the US, China or the UK. Your argument is just plain wrong and can be disproven with a few examples.