Date: August 25th, 2026 2:11 AM Author: Irate electric school dog poop
why is the euro tech/startup scene so shitty? brain drain to the US? higher taxes/regulation? the latter does not seem like a sufficiently convincing reason, seems like there must be a culture there of the most ambitious pursuing status through traditional professional institutions rather than getting rich. but lol @ the thought of even the most capable and ambitious just becoming gay ass lawyers and middle managers.
Date: August 27th, 2026 1:29 AM Author: impressive famous landscape painting address
The elite don't want others to be elite - the elite have exclusive parties that they've been having with the same families for generations.
So they push down the ambitious nerds, outsiders - those most likely to make successful nerds. At the end of the day the elite (policy makers, financiers) have to want to enable others but they scoff at uncultured risk-takers.
Date: August 28th, 2026 3:32 AM Author: contagious rusted sanctuary
Europeans are highly competent but risk averse. A self-selection process happened over the past 400 years whereby the more risk tolerant on average migrated to the new world while the more risk averse on average stayed in Europe
Date: August 28th, 2026 5:37 PM Author: impressive famous landscape painting address
This has truth to it but so does what i said. They think their shit is too clean to get their hands dirty in entrepreneurship or to enable it. The elite see the rest of the world as niggers, including their own non-elite people.