What makes me sceptical about the US long term is the way their elites seem to view public healthcare, gun control and social stability as unfortunate necessity, not as an exiciting project
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Social stabilty? Is that the new catch-phrase in support of government intervention?
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“stability” is a mantra that excuses any government crime here in authoritarian Russia
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"Community, identity, stabilty", as the world state in Brave New World repeats.
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Also as a useful way to expropriate capital from successful American companies.
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Simple fix: American companies stop infringing local laws on monopoly behaviour & consumer protections. Companies need to adhere to the law if they want to trade here: “expropriation” has nothing to do with it, and neither does being American.
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Oi lad, you got a loicense for that reply?
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Sure do pardner!
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Europeans are inherently skeptical of American tech firms. They do not trust them with private data. Personally, I thought GDPR was a good use of regulation. So while some regulation may seem excessive, the U.S. could do a better job of protecting consumer rights.
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In the current climate of wanton consumer rights abuse I honestly don’t see how anyone could see regulation as an ‘unfortunate’ necessity.
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^ yes. obviously. the arrogance and frankly selfishness in the “regulation is always bad” camp is nothing short of breathtaking. greedy, myopic, but hopefully going out of style.
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"What has the government ever done for us?"
https://youtu.be/Y7tvauOJMHo
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People don't get into regulation to not regulate. Regulators gonna regulate.
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I'd rather have a govt that's excited about regulation than one that outlaws the term "climate change"
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Well creating a unified system in a continent that has many countries (and had many wars) is exciting. It’s not the regulation that’s exciting, it’s the union.
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why do you think they are excited to regulate stuff?
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Confirmation bias mostly...
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Europe is different than the US. They somehow manage to survive with excess regulations. Such regulations are often very bad for business so you've got a solid point on that but saying that EU is doomed because of regulation is mixing how countries work with how companies work
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Look at health, longevity, education in some Eurpean countries vs US.
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Point is we need different metrics for different dimensions of measurement and you CAN have it all with sensible governance. It doesn't have to be better education and health but lower economic success. It should be both
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Eh. Policy can be exciting if people and government worked together for optimal outcomes. As someone else pointed out, US is suffering from gun violence but we outlawed straws.

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We are getting into a different discussion here. Simple fact remains that EU has overly restrictive regulations that slow down economic progress whereas US does not. US has limited social services compared to EU. It should NOT be a this OR that, we can have best of all worlds
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True. I have spoken with entrepreneurs from Europe who complained of same.
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They are likely confusing laws in specific European states with EU regulation. The original post was about the latter. The UK adheres to EU regulations (for now) but is generally seen as a quite entrepreneur friendly environment.
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I am not sure most UK entrepreneurs will agree with the assessment that the UK is a friendly environment for them, especially if they have had exposure to silicon Valley
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