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The EU has been chronically unable to fill the gaps in their economy. If you look at the list of europes biggest companies, it's the same companies as it was 30

The EU has been chronically unable to fill the gaps in their economy. If you look at the list of europes biggest companies, it's the same companies as it was 30 years ago...automotive and oil and gas. There are no major tech companies in Europe, which is so insane it's comical. Let that sink in...a continent full of intelligent tech workers has never been able to get a major tech company off the ground. Regulation may be good, but understand, actually, recognize, that it is also suffocating. People bragging that they have no weeds in their fields, when they have no fresh crops either....

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
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- croes 1y ago
  Without those „Fachkräfte“ the healthcare system would crash. And the biggest companies aren’t automotive, gas and oil. https://companiesmarketcap.com/european-union/largest-companies-in-the-eu-by-market-cap/ https://companiesmarketcap.com/european-union/largest-compan... Maybe therefore the downvotes
  - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
    >Without those „Fachkräfte“ the healthcare system would crash. Really? How many of the illegal boat immigrants work in the German healthcare sector? Because last time I checked they were mostly EU workers who got their job before crossing the border. Actual doctors and nurses don't need to cross borders illegally to get a job. I wasn't talking about skilled, LEGAL immigrants like doctors and nurses, I was talking about the other „Fachkräfte“ that tend to make the news. >And the biggest companies aren’t automotive, gas and oil. Maybe he meant in the tech sector. Because I can't take the LVMH sweatshop seriously even if they're making a lot of money. And the other companies on the list, FANG are worth more than all of them combined. I think even Nvidia is worth more than all of them.
    - ben0x539 1y ago
      You know that "Fachkräfte" doesn't mean immigrants, right?
      - croes 1y ago
        Fachkräfte is often one of reasons used to justify immigration in the EU and especially Germany. „Fachkräfte“ in quotes is often used by right wing racists to sarcastically describe immigrants if one of them commits a crime
        FirmwareBurner 1y ago
        > if one of them commits a crime What about when many commit crimes? Starting with the act of immigrating illegally.
        croes 1y ago
        Once again, Fachkräfte was meant for migrants, right wing racists write "Fachkräfte" and suggest migrants are illegal and or criminals and of course muslims or arabic or african. Usually the same people count suspects as convicted and ignore other contributing factors to criminal behavior beside skin color, place of birth and religion. The also usually show sharp decline in interest as soon as a crime suspect turns out to be a local, see rampage driving in Mannheim or the AfD member who threatened others with a knife at a Holocaust commemoration in Strausberg.
    - croes 1y ago
      > How many of the illegal boat immigrants work in the German healthcare sector Nice try of moving goalposts. „Fachkräfte“ is about refugees and legal immigrants. But undeclared work in the care sector is what makes it affordable for many private people. > Maybe he meant in the tech sector. Because I can't take the LVMH sweatshop seriously even if they're making a lot of money. Why do you start at number 3 and ignore SAP and ASML? Another goalpost. Parents point wasn’t about being better but existence Nvidia is higher overvalued thanks to the AI bubble. But Nvidia highly depends on TSMC and they depends on ASML
  - Workaccount2 1y ago
    This is by revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_Europe_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_E...
    - croes 1y ago
      If we use that as a measure than the US isn’t much different than the EU. Besides Amazon, Apple and Alphabet the usual old suspects
- saubeidl 1y ago
  Please don't spread racist conspiracy theories.
  - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
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    - saubeidl 1y ago
      I'm not calling everyone racist. Just the ones espousing racist views.
PhantomHour 1y ago
> There are no major tech companies in Europe, which is so insane it's comical. Let that sink in...a continent full of intelligent tech workers has never been able to get a major tech company off the ground. This is plainly untrue if you're talking about tech beyond the mag-7 sized supergiants. > Regulation may be good, but understand, actually, recognize, that it is also suffocating. People bragging that they have no weeds in their fields, when they have no fresh crops either.... And yet it is the tech giants in the US, oh so praised for their size, that are the "weeds" in many regards. What good is Google when it's reliant on an advertising monopoly itself built entirely on monopolistic and fraudulent exploitation of the rest of the economy. What good is Amazon when it's reliant on crushing all other retail and local manufacturing?
- CamperBob2 1y ago
  What good is Amazon when it's reliant on crushing all other retail and local manufacturing? I give them money, and in return I get stuff that "all other retail" failed to provide. That's good.
  - Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
    That's exactly the point of the author. Amazon crushed all other retail in the first place and therefore, now all other retail can't provide some stuff and you buy them from amazon That isn't good. Man I am thinking of this as an ouroboros. Amazon got big because they crushed all other retail and they crush all other retail because they are big. I think that the ouroboros that I am talking about should be known as the monoboros (get it? I am trying to have some fun by mixing monopoly and ouroboros, I hope you don't mind it) Or just call this ouroboros a monpoly, man. it hurts me sometimes that you can't bring change in this world because of the way the world is right now and that bad things can happen in this world and its far far from perfect. I don't get how you guys or even anyone stays optimistic, I really wish to be a optimist logically but I can't come to that conclusion other than the fact that hey I run on emotions and bad emotions lead to bad things happening for me personally so I need to shut down bad emotions just so that they happen better for me. But that seems a little like running away from the truth. Should I feel okay running away from truth?

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

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croes 1y ago
Without those „Fachkräfte“ the healthcare system would crash. And the biggest companies aren’t automotive, gas and oil. https://companiesmarketcap.com/european-union/largest-companies-in-the-eu-by-market-cap/ https://companiesmarketcap.com/european-union/largest-compan... Maybe therefore the downvotes
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  >Without those „Fachkräfte“ the healthcare system would crash. Really? How many of the illegal boat immigrants work in the German healthcare sector? Because last time I checked they were mostly EU workers who got their job before crossing the border. Actual doctors and nurses don't need to cross borders illegally to get a job. I wasn't talking about skilled, LEGAL immigrants like doctors and nurses, I was talking about the other „Fachkräfte“ that tend to make the news. >And the biggest companies aren’t automotive, gas and oil. Maybe he meant in the tech sector. Because I can't take the LVMH sweatshop seriously even if they're making a lot of money. And the other companies on the list, FANG are worth more than all of them combined. I think even Nvidia is worth more than all of them.
  - ben0x539 1y ago
    You know that "Fachkräfte" doesn't mean immigrants, right?
    - croes 1y ago
      Fachkräfte is often one of reasons used to justify immigration in the EU and especially Germany. „Fachkräfte“ in quotes is often used by right wing racists to sarcastically describe immigrants if one of them commits a crime
      - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
        > if one of them commits a crime What about when many commit crimes? Starting with the act of immigrating illegally.
        croes 1y ago
        Once again, Fachkräfte was meant for migrants, right wing racists write "Fachkräfte" and suggest migrants are illegal and or criminals and of course muslims or arabic or african. Usually the same people count suspects as convicted and ignore other contributing factors to criminal behavior beside skin color, place of birth and religion. The also usually show sharp decline in interest as soon as a crime suspect turns out to be a local, see rampage driving in Mannheim or the AfD member who threatened others with a knife at a Holocaust commemoration in Strausberg.
  - croes 1y ago
    > How many of the illegal boat immigrants work in the German healthcare sector Nice try of moving goalposts. „Fachkräfte“ is about refugees and legal immigrants. But undeclared work in the care sector is what makes it affordable for many private people. > Maybe he meant in the tech sector. Because I can't take the LVMH sweatshop seriously even if they're making a lot of money. Why do you start at number 3 and ignore SAP and ASML? Another goalpost. Parents point wasn’t about being better but existence Nvidia is higher overvalued thanks to the AI bubble. But Nvidia highly depends on TSMC and they depends on ASML
- Workaccount2 1y ago
  This is by revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_Europe_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_E...
  - croes 1y ago
    If we use that as a measure than the US isn’t much different than the EU. Besides Amazon, Apple and Alphabet the usual old suspects
saubeidl 1y ago
Please don't spread racist conspiracy theories.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
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  - saubeidl 1y ago
    I'm not calling everyone racist. Just the ones espousing racist views.

PhantomHour 1y ago

> There are no major tech companies in Europe, which is so insane it's comical. Let that sink in...a continent full of intelligent tech workers has never been able to get a major tech company off the ground. This is plainly untrue if you're talking about tech beyond the mag-7 sized supergiants. > Regulation may be good, but understand, actually, recognize, that it is also suffocating. People bragging that they have no weeds in their fields, when they have no fresh crops either.... And yet it is the tech giants in the US, oh so praised for their size, that are the "weeds" in many regards. What good is Google when it's reliant on an advertising monopoly itself built entirely on monopolistic and fraudulent exploitation of the rest of the economy. What good is Amazon when it's reliant on crushing all other retail and local manufacturing?

CamperBob2 1y ago
What good is Amazon when it's reliant on crushing all other retail and local manufacturing? I give them money, and in return I get stuff that "all other retail" failed to provide. That's good.
- Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
  That's exactly the point of the author. Amazon crushed all other retail in the first place and therefore, now all other retail can't provide some stuff and you buy them from amazon That isn't good. Man I am thinking of this as an ouroboros. Amazon got big because they crushed all other retail and they crush all other retail because they are big. I think that the ouroboros that I am talking about should be known as the monoboros (get it? I am trying to have some fun by mixing monopoly and ouroboros, I hope you don't mind it) Or just call this ouroboros a monpoly, man. it hurts me sometimes that you can't bring change in this world because of the way the world is right now and that bad things can happen in this world and its far far from perfect. I don't get how you guys or even anyone stays optimistic, I really wish to be a optimist logically but I can't come to that conclusion other than the fact that hey I run on emotions and bad emotions lead to bad things happening for me personally so I need to shut down bad emotions just so that they happen better for me. But that seems a little like running away from the truth. Should I feel okay running away from truth?