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Goodness. I'm struggling to respond to this without any snark. The US has how many states? With how many different rules and regulations between them? I'm sure

by elric 2y ago

Goodness. I'm struggling to respond to this without any snark. The US has how many states? With how many different rules and regulations between them? I'm sure some things are easier in the US than in the EU. But many things are not. There are some regulations, sure, but I can start a company within 2 business days and do business across the entire EU. There are some differents in VAT across member states, but those are easily solvable by talking to an accountant. And sure, things get a bit more tricky when you grow to a multinational scale, but then I'm sure you can hire a few more accounts and other pencil pushers. And hey, we've had free electronic payments across the entire area for nearly two decades. No friction of paper checkbooks here.

dukeyukey 2y ago
The difference between EU member states is _vastly_ more than American states. Like hugely different, to the point trying to compare them is worse then useless.
- elric 2y ago
  It's really hard to generalize about this. There are some big differences between some pairs of each, but little to no between other pairs. Many of these probably won't matter to most businesses.