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I moved from the US to Europe a year ago and I think articles like this don't capture quality of life in Europe well. Just think about healthier food, walkable cities, great public transportation, safety, free education and healthcare. The way I see it, life in Europe is less stressful and more enjoyable than in the US. Having less money translates into having a smaller house or a car, but in my opinion that doesn't…
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The entire concept of "wealth" in the US is perverted - there's general ignorance or disdain for socially-owned wealth, instead of it's wealth extracted from the ground or populace or biomass and converted into personal wealth (then aggregated into a metric like GNP). As someone who had a chance a decade or so ago to emigrate to the EU from the US, I regret not doing so every time I hear of a school shooting or visit…
What stops you from moving to the EU now?
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>Russia has _no_ interest in getting along with anybody else in the world and seek to dominate. That is false and entirely a prejudiced idea. Your three minutes hate is over.
Is it? When was the last time Russia wasn't trying to be an expansionist empire? Just saying that something is "false" is really not enough to disprove it.
If all you have to base your argument on is what you've learned in mainstream western media, I'm afraid you're not informed. Mainstream western media is literally owned by the same people who make the bombs that are dropped every twenty minutes on innocent people around the world...
Russia has made plenty of attempts at peaceful relations with its neighbors. It has been rebuffed countless times because peace with Russia won't make anyone any profit.
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Citation, please.
https://gpil.jura.uni-bonn.de/2021/01/germany-rejects-u-s-sa...
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There are literally no responses to this idea that aren't kneejerk reactionary agitprop. Clearly, nobody has really thought about this concept sufficiently well enough to understand its extensive merits...
So please name some of these extensive merits.. > reactionary agitprop. Right...
How poor will we get if you add the green transition to the Ukrainian war?
Hard to say as the green transition is poorly defined. However, lack of transition is much easier to define and to evaluate. According to a recent French government report [1], the cost of non action is significantly higher than transitioning to a net zero GHG economy by 2050. [1] - Rapport Pisani-Mahfouz https://www.strategie.gouv.fr/publications/incidences-econom...
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Russia has plenty to contribute to an economic relationship with Europe, but your prejudices just do not allow you to see that fact.
What prejudices? And please enlighten me. What could Russia bring besides oil, gas and various other raw resources? I'm genuinely curious. Of course I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting. Obviously Europe and Russia could have economic relations which would be beneficial to both sides if Russia dropped it's revanchist/imperialist policies and stopped pretending it's still a global superpower. However even then R…
Which policies exactly?
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So please name some of these extensive merits.. > reactionary agitprop. Right...
A lack of any justification for America to spend a trillion dollars a year and a pittance on healthcare and education for its citizens, for one ..
> a pittance
Did you bother actually looking up these numbers? Public spending on healthcare in the US is comparable to most Western European countries.
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Is it? When was the last time Russia wasn't trying to be an expansionist empire? Just saying that something is "false" is really not enough to disprove it.
Demonstrate to me that you have observed Russia's attempts at peace-making in the last 20 years, and then we can have a discussion. If all you have to base your argument on is what you've learned in mainstream western media, I'm afraid you're not informed. Mainstream western media is literally owned by the same people who make the bombs that are dropped every twenty minutes on innocent people around the world... Russ…
> If all you have to base your argument on is what you've learned in mainstream western media, I'm afraid you're not informed
As opposed to Russian state media or deranged fringe conspiracy theorists?
If you said something like this instead:
NAZI GERMANY has made plenty of attempts at peaceful relations with its neighbors. It has been rebuffed countless times because peace with GERMANY won't make anyone any profit.
You would sound about the same as you do now. Russia is not entitled to a zone of influence in Eastern Europe, it does not own Ukraine or the Baltic States for that matter. It's objectively an imperialist pseudo-fascist revanchist state...
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Countries doesn't have to be on the cutting-bleeding edge of innovation, what they need is to have sane tax laws to keep some of the economic surplus at home. That said, yes, the startup scene in the EU is ridiculous, both investors and startups are subpar. There's too much nepotism and cronyism, entrenched interests, and other barriers to adoption for most products and services, and there's absolutely not enough cap…
I don't agree. If Europe stops having pharma companies, then whoever does have them can dictate prices. If we don't have chip foundries, then we depend on the US and China for telecommunications, and need to live with their standards and their roadmaps. If we don't have investors, then all our new companies end up owned by Americans and relegated to a back office. Being the place where the modern world is designed me…
And similarly for chip foundries. Of course with chips the real trick is that the foundries depend on Europe due to ASML, but yes, your general point stands, and it's important.
What doesn't make sense is to prop up "domestic" companies that - in theory - play the same role in the global supply chain, but when actually it's time for them to step up, they just fell over and the whole things turns out to be three crony ducks, drunk on fancy local wine, playing big business.
There's no need to get the bleeding edge node factory here, but there's many advantages to having some capacity of the already well-understood high-efficiency high-productivity node here.
There's plenty of endogenous and unmet demand in Europe, but there's a lack of culture of providing long-termish solutions for it. (As in the EU funds very short-termist things, and there's the continuously ongoing land subsidy problem.)