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1. shaolinspirit · 1790679601 · focus · HN ↗

   this is a joke I may sound salty, but the only innovations I see coming from Europe are plastic bottle recycling and fining American companies for GDPR violations.

   1. bartread · 1790680394 · focus · HN ↗

      You don’t sound salty: you’re speaking from a place of ignorance and offering an opinion based on literally no evidence whatsoever so you merely sound uninformed.

      In the UK, for example, we don’t suffer from a dearth of innovation. What actually happens is that successful companies get hoovered up by foreign, and particularly US, investors. It’s extremely frustrating.

      For myself, I’m pleased to see events like this happening in other European countries.

      1. philipallstar · 1790692174 · focus · HN ↗

         The cause of the frustration is the entire culture of the UK: don't recognise risk as a valid input that requires reward; blame people who do well; tax them out of the country to pay for people imported recently or leasing the Chagos Islands.

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