Serving videos with interspersed ads or selling goods on the internet really are not complex business models. You can hardly call the fact that people choose to

Serving videos with interspersed ads or selling goods on the internet really are not complex business models. You can hardly call the fact that people choose to use these novel things - when replacements like cable TV and brick and mortar stores are still working just fine - slavery. The EU really needs to drop their victim mindset about these American software companies and critically examine why their insistence on the grant-model for innovation has resulted in failure after failure in the software space. They’ll try to start a “Silicon X” where literally the only thing in common with Silicon Valley is they try to collocate the jobs they’re creating, which is like the easiest factor to replicate as it will mostly happen naturally if they address the actual other factors like attracting venture capital, letting employees take home a lot of money and switch jobs freely, letting companies hire and fire more freely, actually valuing the software work instead of glorifying nontechnical pencil pushers like project managers…