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Every regulation in same says hinders business. We don't need to get into a race to the bottom just because other countries sacrifice consumer privacy for the g
by AlecSchueler 3y ago
Every regulation in same says hinders business. We don't need to get into a race to the bottom just because other countries sacrifice consumer privacy for the good of their corporations.
I've also worked at startups both side of the Atlantic and I slept a lot better following EU regs, without the dirty feeling of having written scripts to creep on vulnerable people for the benefit of the company that was increasing their cost of living and treating them like statistical cattle.
- dmix 3y agoI'd bet a ton of EU programmers would have preferred staying in EU to work because there's actually jobs there. Or jobs that don't just pay $75k. It's not just privacy regulations hurting EU, those are easier to defend, it's the general deep rooted nature which makes that the automatic solution to every single problem without regard for the bigger picture. And those policies are always a one way street whether it benefited every one or not in retrospect. What's the end goal? A perfectly regulated, moral economy that never grows and relies on immigrants to stabilize GDP numbers? If these new regs also came at the same pace as reforms for previous ones that actively hurt these countries it'd be way easier to agree with as a general rule. Instead it's just another one thrown on the pile and the only new jobs are for administrators to enforce them.