> The EU has had 20 years to create an equally successful and popular product, which it failed to do. American companies don’t owe your European nationalist amb

> The EU has had 20 years to create an equally successful and popular product, which it failed to do. American companies don’t owe your European nationalist ambitions a dime. So true. There's a lot of passive-aggressive anti-US rhetoric and fearmongering on HN at the moment, while America is simply doing what it's always done - innovating and thriving. As a European, I wish our continent was able to be more like America, as opposed to jealously coveting its outcomes.