I’m not completely in agreement with many of your takes as I think things are often more complicated than how you outline them. EU decision making is long, not

I’m not completely in agreement with many of your takes as I think things are often more complicated than how you outline them. EU decision making is long, not necessarily hard because of local interests but because it’s how EU diplomacy works. The disadvantage is that local countries often adopt their own standards and are then slow to adopt the EU ones when they eventually come out. It does happen over time, however, it’s just slow because the local businesses aren’t really going to do it until you force them to do so with legislation. But politicians rarely fight on behalf of their local solutions, often because those solutions ended up costing 10x of what was originally sold and usually taking 5+ years extra. It’s not like you’re wrong though. Except for this part. > This is due to software engineer not being prestigious job in many EU countries. When polled software engineering ranks among doctors, actual engineers and TikTok stars as what young people want to be. Though to be fair, software development is going down as people have realised it isn’t a get-rich quick scheme. Anyway. In the wider society Software Engineering is one of the higher regarded and prestigious fields in many European countries. If what you mean is getting recognition by the HN styled crowd then you are correct, but there is a lot of Italian, French, German, Polish and so on, speaking talent you won’t ever hear about in the English focused news. In fact a lot of the top tech talent is not going to the US but rather places like Dubai, Singapore or China because those places pay more. There are obviously people who head to the US but I’d still argue that it’s about money and not because they weren’t valued. You would see a lot of EU professionals migrate for pay if they could. Because EU is just more mediocre. That is not the right word, what I mean is that the sealing is lower. The floor is also often higher, but if you’re in a position where you can triple your already top level pay, then you’re probably going to take it. Now if you mean prestige as in pay, then yes.