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You could start making stuff we're willing to buy. I'll give you a qick rundown of what Europeans might want: * no junk food, no weird GMO garbage. * road-lega

by eecc 1y ago

You could start making stuff we're willing to buy. I'll give you a qick rundown of what Europeans might want: * no junk food, no weird GMO garbage. * road-legal automobiles, no EPA-workaround trucks with shoulder-high hoods. * advanced tech hardware gadgets. * entertainment * no, we're not particularly interested in guns. Tell me what exactly what aren't we already buying from the US, when it's competitive: quality food we have our own, sorry; cars, well you've gone down a crazy path since I can remember; hardware, well we do, except you chose to offshore manufacturing; entertainment, we do... a lot; guns, be honest, you know you have a problem, not us. So what's the point of this tantrum?

disgruntledphd2 1y ago
To be fair, the US exports a lot of services to the EU. For some reason these weren't included in the calculations shrug. As an aside, it's hilarious to see loads of Europeans saying that they never use any US products on a bunch of US owned products.
_bin_ 1y ago
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- eecc 1y ago
  Europoor? My apartment in Amsterdam is way “poorer” than whatever this is, but hey I love my canal view: https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/RlIauTsaqD https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/RlIauTsaqD Also, last weekend my son had some weird intestinal flu we couldn’t figure out and ended up visiting the weekend GP. You think we had to pay anything (besides the slippery-slope-ish, pice-controlled, Dutch health insurance system)? So yeah, I might earn 1/3 an SF developer, and yeah — the startup scene can be frustratingly sterile — but I can afford to not need a Tesla Juniper, though I really love it when I lease it for travel. And yes, we do do innovative and cool stuff, we just don’t exit with billions.
  - _bin_ 1y ago
    cali is the butt of half the jokes in America for a reason. i'm glad you like your view though. i'm glad you like your government insurance but my private health insurance is also very good and i don't have to pay much (if anything) for things like that. i'm also alive today thanks to good private insurance and the level of care it afforded, the range of specialists i could see, which most government-run systems would not have covered. if y'all are content, fine i guess. but it is true that the current european model is sustainable. the FT ran a good piece recently discussing how America reducing or ending the indirect european defense subsidy, combined with slowing growth and an ageing population, means that model must come to an end. i don't begrudge you the years you enjoyed it but certainly not for me. you were saying you think no GMOs, smaller vehicles, banned guns, and less money are worth this. i think that's a terrible way to live and would hate doing so. my objection was precisely to you applying your lens and values to America, American values, and our way of life.

by eecc 1y ago

disgruntledphd2 1y ago

To be fair, the US exports a lot of services to the EU. For some reason these weren't included in the calculations shrug. As an aside, it's hilarious to see loads of Europeans saying that they never use any US products on a bunch of US owned products.

_bin_ 1y ago

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eecc 1y ago
Europoor? My apartment in Amsterdam is way “poorer” than whatever this is, but hey I love my canal view: https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/RlIauTsaqD https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/RlIauTsaqD Also, last weekend my son had some weird intestinal flu we couldn’t figure out and ended up visiting the weekend GP. You think we had to pay anything (besides the slippery-slope-ish, pice-controlled, Dutch health insurance system)? So yeah, I might earn 1/3 an SF developer, and yeah — the startup scene can be frustratingly sterile — but I can afford to not need a Tesla Juniper, though I really love it when I lease it for travel. And yes, we do do innovative and cool stuff, we just don’t exit with billions.
- _bin_ 1y ago
  cali is the butt of half the jokes in America for a reason. i'm glad you like your view though. i'm glad you like your government insurance but my private health insurance is also very good and i don't have to pay much (if anything) for things like that. i'm also alive today thanks to good private insurance and the level of care it afforded, the range of specialists i could see, which most government-run systems would not have covered. if y'all are content, fine i guess. but it is true that the current european model is sustainable. the FT ran a good piece recently discussing how America reducing or ending the indirect european defense subsidy, combined with slowing growth and an ageing population, means that model must come to an end. i don't begrudge you the years you enjoyed it but certainly not for me. you were saying you think no GMOs, smaller vehicles, banned guns, and less money are worth this. i think that's a terrible way to live and would hate doing so. my objection was precisely to you applying your lens and values to America, American values, and our way of life.