1.) The Economist is always going to be anti-regulation. They're a neoliberal magazine: repealing laws is the point of the paper. 2.) Even if the EU abolished

1.) The Economist is always going to be anti-regulation. They're a neoliberal magazine: repealing laws is the point of the paper. 2.) Even if the EU abolished their unemployment insurance programs and made labor unions illegal, you'd still see startups moving to SF, just for the network effects. The legal system isn't the only factor in producing startups. PG wrote a essay about this.