When you have zero tech companies it's easier to do things that impede tech companies.
Or when you value privacy.
Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?
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#22The US is behind Western and Northern Europe in almost every facet of development that I can think of, except for GDP per capita. Education, healthcare, social mobility, political culture, news media seriousness, public infrastructure, etc. The US is also shockingly institutionally paralyzed and unable to make meaningful reforms in any area, even if they are very popular with the majority of voters. The last one I ca…
I just listened to a Freakonomics episode about the business of the political party duopoly the other day. How federal politicians operate to preserve their institution first and foremost, and that the continued growth of the political industrial complex only serves to profit the parties at the expense of the democracy.
Fundamentally the US needs constitutional amendments to break the duopoly and return elections to being about people instead of parties, but for that to happen you would need a super majority of state legislatures to force an amendment and that is nigh impossible as well given how state governments are modeled off the federal but don't have the safety valve to try to repair the democracy with competitive and diverse elections - a vast majority of states are functionally ruled by one party with supermajority and in perpetuity and would never propose changes that would harm them federally.
The sea between getting a few members of congress or states to support restoring democracy and having the super-majorities required to actually see it done are so vast and the opposition so wealthy, connected, and influential I've never heard anyone propose a legitimate strategy to see it done, because the damage has already in large part been done - even if a super-majority of citizens agree with reform, that has no influence on the behavior of any legislature they elect. You would need to co-opt one of the major parties in ways their charters expressly prohibit and their incumbents will block.
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#23Why is Europe so far behind the rest of the world (except China, Russia et al) on digital freedom and freedom of speech?
Europe far behind? Europe is the best place in the world when it comes to freedom of speech, consumer rights and press freedom.
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#24The US is behind Western and Northern Europe in almost every facet of development that I can think of, except for GDP per capita. Education, healthcare, social mobility, political culture, news media seriousness, public infrastructure, etc. The US is also shockingly institutionally paralyzed and unable to make meaningful reforms in any area, even if they are very popular with the majority of voters. The last one I ca…
This is amusing because politicians still try to emulate the US in many respects as do a lot of companies.
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#25The US is behind Western and Northern Europe in almost every facet of development that I can think of, except for GDP per capita. Education, healthcare, social mobility, political culture, news media seriousness, public infrastructure, etc. The US is also shockingly institutionally paralyzed and unable to make meaningful reforms in any area, even if they are very popular with the majority of voters. The last one I ca…
Pretty much. I am rather dumbfounded by some of the political debates I read in social media by Americans when many of these have been pretty much solved here in Europe, with respect to healthcare, education, abortion rights, gun control, etc. E.g. there is living proof that you can keep a country going with free/subsidized healthcare or education for almost all of its population, as evidenced by literally every Western country that is not the US, yet this empirical evidence is brushed away by American detractors with utterly bizarre arguments about economic freedom that don't have a foothold anywhere else in the world. I don't know if detractors are being 1) ignorant of living conditions abroad, 2) not willing to change a system that benefits them personally, 3) fully aware of how things are elsewhere but reject it for ideological reasons.
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#26Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know
>Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. Given that the life expectancy in the US is falling which is unprecedented in an industrialised society, and on average below some second world countries that post has an involuntary morbid spin.
Leading cause of death for under 45 in the US is traffic fatalities.
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#27When you have zero tech companies it's easier to do things that impede tech companies.
Are you implying there are zero tech companies in Europe?
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#28Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know
>Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. Given that the life expectancy in the US is falling which is unprecedented in an industrialised society, and on average below some second world countries that post has an involuntary morbid spin.
Unprecedented might be too strong a term. It isn't too difficult to find ups and downs of life expectancy in Western European countries.
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#29The US is behind Western and Northern Europe in almost every facet of development that I can think of, except for GDP per capita. Education, healthcare, social mobility, political culture, news media seriousness, public infrastructure, etc. The US is also shockingly institutionally paralyzed and unable to make meaningful reforms in any area, even if they are very popular with the majority of voters. The last one I ca…
I've begun to notice a pattern... most big countries (especially with big populations) are all shtholes. Brazil, India, most of China, Pakistan, Indonesia, parts of US, lots of parts of my country Mexico...
I wish I live in country like Estonia or Luxembourg. They are are so small. Luxembourg could fit into Mexico several times over with like a 1/9 of population. No sht they will have better everything. Transportation system several times smaller, less food to harvest, less people to teach, wealth spread around more, less diverse (I think diversity often makes doing things extremely hard sometimes)... less people=less complicated. Things dont scale so well , ESPECIALLY with people. Europe habe also been around sp much longer than US, probably by a couple 100 years ?
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#30The word "Digital" could be eliminated from the headline without loss of accuracy.
The Data Protection Directive and GDPR don't care about whether the privacy violation involves a computer :)