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The USA doing things better is quickly going to be false
by hnthrow90348765 1y ago
The USA doing things better is quickly going to be false
- djohnston 1y agoCompared to whom?? The EU??? Lmk when they’re building anything competitive.
- xethos 1y agoCommuter rail, public transit, a social safety net, and I personally would take anything from Volkswagon group over the average Dodge vehicle
- nickserv 1y agoDodge is owned by Stellantis, a EU company... And Ford makes good cars, when they choose to.
- xethos 1y agoMy mistake, I'd forgotten Dodge was owned by Stellantis. That said, multiple American car companies (Dodge, Jeep, Chrystler) going under and ending up owned by an EU conglomorate sure doesn't feel like a stirling defense of GP's claim, I.E., "What the EU builds is not competitive with what America builds"
- WrongAssumption 1y agoVolkswagen of diesel-gate fame? That one?
- xethos 1y agoI mean, Jeep and Dodge (when owned under their American umbrella corp., FCA) were later found to be using similar defeat devices (see "Other manufacturers [0]). Though if you want to smear them, you may as well go all in and point out they were the original Nazi car brand - not even Tesla has that kind of credibility [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
- ABS 1y agoI wonder why US businesses and people import so much stuff from the EU if there isn't anything competitive coming out of it
- adventured 1y agoNobody here is seriously suggesting the EU doesn't compete economically. The conversation is focused on tech companies, which is in the subject of the thread. Broadly the EU competes very well with the US, China and globally more generally. In most tech areas the EU continues to lag far behind the US and China.
- ABS 1y agoexcept you seem to think (like many others commenters in this thread) that "tech" means solely "silicon valley-type startups", which it does not. I'll give you some examples that usually stun the average Italian hence they usually stun most other people as well. You think Italy and probably think fashion but in fact the Top 10 Italian exports are (first semi-random results): 1) Machinery including computers: US$116 billion (17.2% of total exports) 2) Pharmaceuticals: $55.5 billion (8.2%) 3) Vehicles: $47 billion (7%) 4) Electrical machinery, equipment: $45.8 billion (6.8%) 5) Gems, precious metals: $25.7 billion (3.8%) 6) Plastics, plastic articles: $24.3 billion (3.6%) 7) Articles of iron or steel: $21.4 billion (3.2%) 8) Mineral fuels including oil: $19.4 billion (2.9%) 9) Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $17.4 billion (2.6%) 10) Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $16.4 billion (2.4%) I see a lot of "tech" in this list, I had this very same conversation with a German Private Equity last week but they are well aware and invest in "tech", just not the "tech" the average HN visitor think about
- BlueTemplar 1y ago"Tech" as in "toolmaking" is a category so broad to be almost useless. (And somewhat questionable too, when the likes of Google make money with something that is more of a service : advertising.) "Infocom" has always been clearer to me, not sure why its usage waned so much ?
- 9283409232 1y agoSpotify is a Swedish company and is the defacto music streaming company, Supercell is one of the largest mobile game companies and is Finnish, Mistral AI is French. There are a lot of European companies that have solid footprints in America.
- albumen 1y agoIn 2019, Airbus displaced Boeing as the largest aerospace company by revenue. In October 2019, the A320 family became the highest-selling airliner family with 15,193 orders, surpassing the Boeing 737's total of 15,136. In 2023 the number of Airbus aircraft in service surpassed Boeing for the first time.
- nxm 1y agoOne example? How about tech?
- Fargren 1y agoHow is Airbus not tech? In any case, Spotify, SAP, Booking definitely qualify as competitive.
- oblio 1y agoBooking is owned by a US company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings Unfortunately for us, Europeans, that's what happens most of the time. SAP and Spotify are the ones that got away. Europe ranks really poorly for tech: https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-by-revenue/ https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b...
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- djohnston 1y agoThe context of the article is an innovation fund for tech startups. The comment was a dumb remark about how the US will fail in this domain. Airbus is not relevant to the discussion because Airbus is not a tech startup. So, Spotify and raises eyebrows … SAP. Innovative.
- nickserv 1y agoIf building airplanes isn't technology, I don't know what is. BTW, Boeing is in the USA's top 10 exporters, it's not a minor thing. But yeah the USA has a definite edge in software, if that's what you mean by "tech".
- mbs159 1y agoHigh speed rail seems like cool tech, but I guess it doesn't compare to the Boring Company Tesla tunnels or whatever.