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Why do you think that actions of these huge institutions are not impactful to the life quality of the Americans? Also, why do you think that the European live
by mrtksn 3y ago
Why do you think that actions of these huge institutions are not impactful to the life quality of the Americans?
Also, why do you think that the European live longer thanks to the medicine developed in the USA? Maybe the USA develops medicine thanks to the free and equal opportunity education culture in the Europe? If you look closely to the researchers, you will see that lot's of the people who develop these things have European roots and by roots I don't mean their grandpa was Irish, I mean they were educated in Europe and it just happens that the organisation that develops these drugs is incorporated in the USA.
The tech revolution that changed the world was also developed in Europe, the web was developed by the British in EU institution, Linux was made by a Finnish guy called Linus, Nginx is Russian-made.
Also, we are at a verge of AI revolution and some of the leading researchers are Europe educated people. Just check the bio of the top researchers who were instrumental at Tesla or OpenAI.
Maybe the USA is just the industrial zone of Europe? Maybe the US appears rich and acts poor simply because because the richness comes from the accounting choices? Just kidding of course, the USA is a superpower and is actually rich thanks to many things like its abundant resources and brilliant people but the notion that the Europe is doing better because they just drink smoothies and meditate all day on the American resources and innovation is ridiculous.
- glimshe 3y agoI don't think most of what you wrote, almost phrase by phrase. You took an extreme version of what I said and rebutted it. Just because I said that the US had major influence in European medicine and life expectancy, you took it as meaning that Europeans are bad scientists and "just drink smoothies". I think nothing of this sort. It's very safe to say that US-originated science had a major influence in life expectancy worldwide, including Europe. What's so controversial about it? The increase in life expectancy in Europe, then, was "significantly" influenced by US innovations.
- mrtksn 3y agoOf course US "originated" science had influence, just like Russia originated one or Korea originated one. Also, Science is not something you dig from the ground to claim it’s origins. Depending on what you want to claim, you can change your definition. You can claim that we are having it so good thanks to the German science from the 1940s. Pick a cut off date and ownership method to suit your argument needs.
- pragmatic 3y agoI would love for this to be true. Europeans do seem to enjoy a higher quality of life among several axis. However the US subsidizes European defense (refer to current events) allowing European countries to spend less GDP on their military. Talent comes to the US from all over the world. That's how it works and has since almost the beginning of the country. Easier access to capital (and easy bankruptcy, etc), entrepreneurial mindset (less Tall Poppy syndrome), etc etc means business is generally easier in US. Linus moved to the US. The web was possible bc the internet was funded by the US (arpanet, etc). Europeans enjoy the Pax Americana without paying tribute to the Amerian empire. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/nato-spending-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/nato-spen...
- mrtksn 3y agoMaybe the US is spending so much in defence in it's own interests? Maybe that's how US can enforce business benefits like copyrights to the American corporations and business decisions on what other countries can invest into? Maybe that's why US can print USD at will but other countries have to earn it? But I like the Linus argument, however this complicates things further: Are tech becoming European when the tech CEO's are having a vacation in the French riviera?
- Bayart 3y agoThe US isn't so much subsidizing defense as it is exporting safety. And it's making bank on it.
- PawgerZ 3y agoAnd exporting a little teror in the background to make more moeny on their exported safety.
- swexbe 3y agoThe American military is paid for by debt. The US can only take on this debt because they have the world’s reserve currency. It’s essentially a flat tax on the rest of the world.
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