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How many of the top level comments are just blanket assumptions that this is going to be corrupt without any pointing at specifics of this proposal? The knee-je

• FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  >How many of the top level comments are just blanket assumptions that this is going to be corrupt without any pointing at specifics of this proposal? How many points do you need on the graph till you're convinced they form a line? If some person or some org, has a history of spending money and not delivering anything, what are the odds "this time will be different"? To me, this initiative is just another point on that line.
• sowhat25 1y ago
  Because it's their experience with how the EU is run. These top level commenters you refer to don't want to waste their time with the specifics is the proposal because they believe that these initiative is a poorly managed redistribution of tax money.
  • miltonlost 1y ago
    True. I sometimes forget this is site is more VC bro than tech bro. All that matters to most on here is how easy it is to make money for themselves.
    • bgnn 1y ago
      I don't think VC system is good, but I'm tired of going in to EU calls to only see there's actually no money for start-ups but it's often earmarked to keep big EU companies afloat and competitive. This is in itself not a bad thing, pretty much everyone does it (US military industrial complex for example). So I accepted these as money injection to big business rather than expecting it to tickle down to small businesses or start-ups. On start-up funding we have a systematic issue of European wealth going to US for investment and EU start-ups going to US to find investment. These EU money injections doesn't solve it imho.