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European companies are smaller on average and less likely to go public in general, so market cap comparisons don’t show the whole picture. Growing big is less often seen as a goal than in the US. “Megacaps” aren’t necessarily considered a healthy thing to have.


Yes, and this all but guarantees that Europe will stay behind USA and China in their technology capabilities.


What are these capabilities?

I don't see any sense in which the EU has fewer capabilities. It has, say, a smaller number of businesses with smaller market dominance.

It isnt clear to me what capability the EU would gain by having a monopolist social network, a monopolist search engine, a monopolist advertising trader


Europe has all of those things, they just come from the US.


If it means sticking to their values, then so be it.




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