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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

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160 points cruzcampo | 2 comments | 11 Apr 25 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 1.912s | source
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palata ◴[11 Apr 25 08:15 UTC] No.43651526[source]▶
> There are few unicorns in Europe, alas, and too little innovation.

There is most definitely innovation in Europe. It just gets bought by the US, who is quick to forget where the technology came from.

As for unicorns and trillion dollars companies... some may say it's a feature, not a bug. It's great to claim to have free speech and competition, but when a few people own a few big monopolies and control the media, is it real? Regulations are not bad.

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1. jbverschoor ◴[11 Apr 25 08:44 UTC] No.43651698[source]▶
There's no risk capital. There's no vision. No guts, no glory. Just old glory.

A bunch of scared real-estate investors and pension funds who have their roots in STAYING in Europe when the (ad)venturers went overseas and built what has become the US.

It's not in the culture and it won't be.

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2. Propelloni ◴[11 Apr 25 09:20 UTC] No.43651978[source]▶
Hehe, that's certainly one way of looking at it. Just as well we could say that the religious fanatics, the absolutists, the utopians, and some other malcontents dissatisfied with the enlightenment went overseas to establish their puritan and perfect societies because those boring Europeans just wouldn't see the light and all the violence did not change that.

Would that be more accurate? No, but no less either.