I just took it as his contrast between SV entrepreneural attitudes and the reality of the labor market and general attitudes in Europe, and it agrees with what

I just took it as his contrast between SV entrepreneural attitudes and the reality of the labor market and general attitudes in Europe, and it agrees with what I see here, because I live in Budapest. But man do I not want to argue about it. I mostly just didn't like OP's style of argument, to be honest, and I did like Varsavsky's post, essentially because it highlighted the four points you highlight here. I did wonder whether he was American; his English is a little odd.