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The European Commission is way too pro-business for that, even when the said businesses are parasitic actors who don't even pay taxes in the EU.
by stymaar 3mo ago
The European Commission is way too pro-business for that, even when the said businesses are parasitic actors who don't even pay taxes in the EU.
- spwa4 3mo agoPlus that just isn't how governments work. Governments work by imposing costs on others. They do not build.
- stymaar 3mo agoWhat does it has to do with the topic? And saying “governments do not build” is a crazy antihistorical take: many things, from the space industry to the telco one were built by governments, as well as the energy and transport sectors in many countries. For the past 50-ish years the West convinced itself that government should not build, and as a result we're suffering from a slow collapse of basic infrastructures. Meanwhile, in China and the Gulf, government kept building and the world's center of gravity steadily keeps moving eastwards.
- TheHalc 3mo ago"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
- spwa4 3mo agoI merely illustrate that the EU commission certainly has the means to replace Google in the EU. Build a new Youtube. Build the services that society, frankly, depends on now ... which is quite a few of them. And they're not doing that. They are only making it harder for existing services to exist, in order to change the situation, and in order to make money for themselves. But they're not helping in the sense of building anything.