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

> 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.

> As for unicorns and trillion dollars companies... some may say it's a feature, not a bug

Cope much?

As a European I'd rather not have half of our industries critically depend on AWS and Microsoft, especially now that the US has fully embraced governance by RNG. The choice isn't having or not having your own digital infrastructure, it's either having your own or having to depend on someone else.

Hertzer in Europe is pretty good, but they don't have first mover advantage and they haven't got as much control of mindshare in governments. A lot of people only discovered their existence once the US went to the dark side.

Technically many of these server/hosting companies were in the market first. Hetzner is older than AWS. Mailbox is like 10 years older than gmail/google. So the US companies are the ones who didnt have first mover advantage.