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Europe is never going to have sovereignty in a lot of areas. A vassal of the US or a vassal of China. Pick your poison.
by xyzsparetimexyz 5mo ago
Europe is never going to have sovereignty in a lot of areas. A vassal of the US or a vassal of China. Pick your poison.
- awestroke 5mo agoIf it ever comes to that, we'll pick China, thanks
- ejoso 5mo agoSo you’d enjoy being like the free and happy people of Tibet then, eh?
- awestroke 5mo agoLesser of two evils etc. How about south america as a counterexample?
- ejoso 5mo agoIs it lesser? Up until the 2010s the US was generally pretty good with EU & EU adjacent. It’s likely to return too, as there remains a strong societal will for it. I ask this - which has the more persistent track record of a free or more free society? I think recency bias and online discourse has polluted perceptions.
- verzali 5mo agoAs opposed to the free and happy native Americans? Oh wait, they were all murdered and their culture destroyed.
- bryanrasmussen 5mo agoright it totally makes sense because it's the third biggest economy in the world, it has to be a vassal of number one or number two, because there has been a situation where number three in anything tries to move up, if you're third in line you must submit.
- cindyllm 5mo ago[dead]
- radicalbyte 5mo agoA vassal of California. I know we like to say that tech is the US but that's not true. It is almost completely focused around a small part of California. Take that out and Europe and the US are comparable with respect to software tech at least. Europe has a golden chance with the current mass outflux of talent from the US and I really hope we grasp it. I just don't see my country (NL) doing that as our political class are nearly as stupid as the Americans.
- FergusArgyll 5mo agoIf California would burn down, the scene would recreate itself somewhere else (ny, austin, boston).
- radicalbyte 5mo agoThe tech companies could all move to Texas and the power would be there. They've all won. They all have their monopolies / duopolies. They would never have been the success they were in the first place without California. It was the culture, the conditions (no non-competes) and the lax regulation (non-enforcement of rules aimed at avoiding monopolies which allowed Facebook to buy any emerging competitor not owned by the Chinese government) which created them.
- sublinear 5mo agoThis is wildly out of touch. More than half the jobs in software in the USA are not even on the west coast, let alone California. The broader business world isn't "big tech", but it's still bigger than it.
- cedws 5mo agoIf Europe were smart they’d play both parties against each other.