I'd recommend for Entrepreneurs, just like Scientists now do, to consider Europe as a safe-haven. In the EU the rule of law still matters.
Europe suffers from another kind of "corruption", more akin to a corrupted file system: absurd, rigid and unpredictable regulation makes life very hard for businesses, which drives large private capital away. I am European, and every time I open one of those stupid locked-on bottle caps, I feel pain for my country, for Europe (and for my face).
Stop buying disposable bottles then. They are part of a solution to a waste problem, but by continuing to buy disposablle bottles you're contributing to the issue.
European law is a patchwork of suboptimal solutions to hard (but often self-imposed) problems. The US meanwhile doesn't try to solve them at all. Yes, the bottle caps annoy me, but if the beverage companies stuck to the much more recyclable glass bottles we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. Yes, the GDPR popups annoy me, but the law also punishes companies for being creepy exploitative bastards. If they ha…
I don't dismiss the problem, I dismiss the solution. Yes, plastic bottles (and caps) are likely a major environmental disaster. The alternative to regulation is innovation: force bottle makers to invest x% of their profit or revenue into actual research on plastic recycling or capture.
Another alternative is anticonsumption; stop or reduce use of disposable packaging if possible.
You shouldn't ever tell anyone here to fuck off. It's not polite. You may get penalized.
That said, your examples are indeed corruption. But the parent did not make any equivalency. He gave purported examples of corruption. One can say that they're unsubstantiated, but that's a different argument.
Everyone crying about the opsec failure and not that these people were cheering murdering women and children in one of the world's poorest country.
Caring about people in a far away country is not a winning strategy. Showing that this admin is harming national security and risking American lives is what gets voter attention.
These just compare market cap. As the US economy is disproportionally financialized, that outcome is hardly surprising: This was just measuring market financialization by proxy. I mean two of the largest on the left, Google and Meta, are essentially just ad companies. Now compare companies by actual revenue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_E... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_…
Yes, Europe did have great entrepreneurial culture in the past, but the point of the “founded in the last 50 years” distinction is to measure how things have been going for entrepreneurs who are still alive today. You can’t call a region a “safe haven for entrepreneurs” if all the globally relevant entrepreneurs from that region are dead from old age. Remember, Europe has double the population of the US. To lag behin…
Lag by what measure? Cities are just better as cities, laws are annoyingly bureaucratic but actually work, your neighbour isn't likely to shoot you dead... The US does better on abstract statistics like GDP, but... GDP is biased in favour of whoever issues the global reserve currency, so that doesn't actually mean a lot unless you are specifically trying to accumulate units of global reserve currency.
Then send a message to the producer. The law requires for caps to be attached but doesn't describe how. I have a water bottle next to me that has a cap connected by one long piece after opening that doesn't touch my face at all when drinking. Sure, Europe has some red tape that should be removed but don't paint it as some kind of Kafka's universe because it's not that bad. I'm from east side of Iron Curtain and I rem…
Same answer as GDPR: when the majority/all of the companies implement it in a way that hurts everyone (businesses and end users alike), then the problem is with the regulator, not the regulated.
In other words, personal responsibility doesn't apply to business owners.
Yes, unfortunately we’re already at that point. Republicans and their base close ranks so effectively that it’s essentially a safe haven for all sorts of corruption and serious crime. The voters won’t punish them at the ballot and they’ve essentially captured all sources of checks and balances.
I mean this with all due respect. Anyone who talks about Democrats and Republicans like they’re on one of the teams has totally missed the political charade being orchestrated in DC. These parties do not represent you.
Both are bad. One is much, much worse than the other.
You shouldn't ever tell anyone here to fuck off. It's not polite. You may get penalized. That said, your examples are indeed corruption. But the parent did not make any equivalency. He gave purported examples of corruption. One can say that they're unsubstantiated, but that's a different argument.
I'm no longer willing to be quiet or polite on these topics. Luckily, HN accounts are cheap.
And yes, saying "If you want to look at corruption in the US" and then avoiding mentioning the extremely large and very apparent corruption actively happening right now in the Trump admin - that is intentionally creating a false equivalency by implicitly saying "what's happening right now doesn't matter it's the same old same old."