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It's insane yes. What an incredible waste of tax dollars.



When your health sector is being shaken down by foreign monopoly for software licenses whose prices increase for no reason, making your own word processor suddenly doesn't seem very different to training your own doctors.


They could try innovating and actually supporting an economy of entrepreneurship so individuals are incentivized to build better tools in their home country instead of coming here. Too bad VC _almost_ exclusively exists in the US. What Europe calls VC is a joke.


The world would be much better without much of what American venture capital has created over the past twenty years. Ad tech mass surveillance, Uber eating labour protections, "Unicorn" worshpping monopolization of basic utilities.


Would much rather have the hell world American VC has created than the alternative hell world of the euro uber-government.


Can you give me some concrete examples of where Euro uber-government is negatively impacting my life?


Thankfully it's tax euros!




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