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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> Few European people oppose migration of educated workers. That's a lie people tell you because they do not want to sound racist. > Rather it's about asylum seekers who often arrive here illegally ... very few ... > and
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Because its obviously not about what makes sense ... you don't seem to know but your friends just don't fit our awesome western culture. I really hate the term "culture" by now.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> That's why you now see ghettos and zones where the police don't go in France, Sweden and even UK. That's failed policy by the people that are already here, not the fault of the immigrants. > I think Europe should be s
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Its interesting that you get downvoted just for saying that we should have government regulation that leads to working markets with a healthy competition making things better for people. > I thing regulated capitalism is one of the stren
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> primarily driven by laziness of the consumer oh yes :( > unlike the European and academic way of building open networks and software (web, linux, email) it captured the walled garden That's why politics should make sure those w
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
The only nice thing to do is: pay their taxes, don't build surveillance systems just to show fascist ads to your users. Actually, I don't expect companies to do these two things. I expect governments to prevent companies from doin
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Just gotta be rich, then the health care system is awesome. Its incredible how high maternal mortality is in the US. Like a development country.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
I don't get your point. I mean, I agree with the danger of a far-right president in France in '22, and I'd like to see another party in power in Germany, but what does that have to do with the current quality of life? Right n
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
I'd argue if you say "the fact is", you should provide a source for that. So low-paying jobs in the service sector are not an immigrant thing in the US? Did you talk to enough Europeans to know we can only name the BionTech g
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Yeah but the people commenting here are probably the ones that earn that tech money, not the person working in the service sector for a couple of $ an hour.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Social media giants? Environment-polluting industry? BTW, Germany's also a top seller of weapons! We even delivered chemicals to Assad. So yeah, in that area we really are on par.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
So basically you're saying it could not work to have a social safety net, so let's not have one all together? Because it could go wrong, don't even try? Does not sound very American.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Yeah it heavily depends where you live, in Germany. In or near larger cities, there's lots of really good options. Its funny how Germany was ruled for 16 years now by a party whose voters live mostly in rural areas, but didn't do
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful downvote. However I don't really follow. The discussion is clearly about politics here, so it probably does not count as off-topic. Also, fascism has a massive influence on the economy, making it relevant.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
That's why I said "not because if the code itself". But I have a typo there, shit. of , not if . What community? The one where you have to be rich to be a part of?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> The more-even distribution thus comes at the expense of quality of life. What are you talking about? We have fairer elections, better infrastructure, more social security, everyone's got health insurance, we're not getting sh
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
I just hope it stays that way. I fear that all the cynics blaming everything that's bad on politicians and the EU (instead of the voters putting those politicians in power) will eventually degrade trust in that in itself nicely working
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Yeah isn't that kind of the idea how innovation in working markets with healthy innovation (i.e. no monopolies preventing innovation by smaller companies) should work? Funny how that is forgotten when it comes to comparing penis sizes.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Also, don't Americans complain all the f**ing time how bad their broadband internet is?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Ok. So lets look at the US on a state level - some got terribly rich, some suffer terribly?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Isn't it nice that a large part of the European economy consists of stuff helping people (the "state activities" you mention) vs. the large part of the US economy that consists of hurting people?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Its funny how the same people complaining about wealth concentration and how bad it is n the US will, in the next comment, say how awesome the US is for having these large companies ... where wealth is concentrated??2?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
>> the entire EU economy grew at the same speed than the US one but not its 500 bigger companies > This is literally the article’s point. Europe and the U.S. grew similarly. The U.S. and China produced more large companies. (The Co
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
So basically you're saying Europe should start another World War to make sure their companies stay competitive?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Every person that ever committed a patch to the Linux Kernel probably has more impact. Not because if the code itself but Linux is just so much more important than Apple, Facebook and Google altogether.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
But what has Whatsapp to do with innovation? There's nothing innovative about a messenger app. They only thing they did is degrade privacy even further.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Also they have no reason to innovate if they got a monopoly. Sometimes they buy that small innovative company and then that nice idea somehow just dies ... maybe cause it'd hurt their business model?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
What's your point? That letting tech giants taking over just for a little faster innovation is worth it? Maybe the European approach is a little slower, but leads to better results? But then ... what technology was really advanced by c
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> They couldn’t compete due to structural restrictions on scale. Mhm. Cause a working marked with healthy competition never did anything good. Just one question, how did European car makers then become what they are? Even though its impo
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Yeah but doesn't Apple rely on European companies like Bosch for sensors and stuff? So, no iPhone without those crappy uninnovative European companies. Oh and Linux and the WWW were developed in Europe, if I remember correctly?

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