Finally more people are figuring out that the EU is a net positive and not a net negative. Love my Europe.
Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#32> "(...) best seen in the popularity of mass lay-offs – a strategy that has been resoundly proven to be counter-productive, costly, even disastrous, along multiple dimensions, over multiple decades of study."
This is the first time I read that big layoffs are "disastrous" for companies vs. some other approach in these situations (other maybe than the rather obvious fact that companies who are conducting mass layoffs are often in dire straits to begin with). I'm assuming "for companies" is implied here, because the way I read the sentence, the author is saying doing mass layoffs is misguided from the point of view of company management, not someone altruistically trying to maximize welfare in society overall or something like that. Does anyone have a good source for this?
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#33Are there any counterexamples to what the author presents as the inevitability of European open market regulations? > And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world. Boy, wouldn't it be horrible if we got more Tesla's, SpaceX's, Starlink's, and freedom of speech on social media in the world!
More governmwnt subsidized launch companies, car makers building shitty cars with bad servicing networks and more right wing BS on the internet? Yes, why puldn't we want that?
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#34What amazes and perplexes me is that Apple thinks it can effectively play politics against the EU and that somehow their customers will back them in the face of the "consequences" Apple applies, which are pretty transparent and really quite amateurish (eg no more web apps for you!). As the article states, the first mistake Apple makes is thinking the EU is somehow like the US, but I can't see how any large proportion…
Especially that they don't seem to get that while the EU is very slow to act, once it's moving it's almost unstoppable.
The time for Apple to get their point across isn't now but a decade ago.
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#35It's rare to find someone with a very different starting point of view, and still don't feel any antagonism at all during the reasoning.
As an European for example I would attribute most of his general criticism of EU to the US but after much entrenching on "Apple vs EU" this felt like a reasonable third view.
Kudos to the author
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#36I understand where the author is coming from and It is important to have a realist perspective on what is driving European strategy or else we will be in denial. I think it's also important to recognize that the west are interconnected in many real ways beyond economic. The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella which allows the EU to invest on other things instead of defense. Another…
> US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare
Do you have any numbers to back this claim up?
> there's far less flexibility if they are a bad hire
In most European countries any new employee will be on probation for an initial period [1] during which they can be let go easily.
[1] https://www.eurodev.com/blog/probationary-periods-in-europe
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#37> There are a few examples of this trend towards denying reality. The starkest one being Elon Musk behaving as if European labour unions don’t exist and that labour is entirely powerless, leading his companies to lose money on strikes and other collective actions.
> And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world.
I can agree that labour unions are real, but I see little evidence that Elon Musk denies reality. Maybe that's the picture you get when you read only the news. If you watch any full length interview with him he seems pretty down to earth (or "grounded" if you want to call it like that).
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#38Everything you need to know about government bureaucracy, including the EU’s , you can learn from watching the TV show “Yes, Minister.”
And the next level of enlightenment is that you can further learn everything about corporate bureaucracy by combining the learnings from "Yes, Minister" with the American "The Office". It's not any better in the private world, but the sociopaths are a bit more money-oriented.
Money, sex and power are interchangable when it comes to sociopathic, power hungry people.
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#39This reads like a 10th graders report, just repeating arguments found on the internet. The criticism of forcing apple to abandon a superior connector for phones to standardize charger cords, while every other building you go into in Europe has a different outlet that is incompatible with the charger you want to plug in is perfectly reasonable. The idea that there is some great benefit to making sure there is only one…
Gosh damn you Denmark! You where super late to the party and then choose to be special :(
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1545/5143/files/Plugs_of_t...
That really grinds my gears. But I think the narrow 2 pin plug can be used in most EU countries.
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>The fact that the EU regulators can arbitrarily go after companies is a real problem.
Do they go arbitrarily after companies though?
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#40I understand where the author is coming from and It is important to have a realist perspective on what is driving European strategy or else we will be in denial. I think it's also important to recognize that the west are interconnected in many real ways beyond economic. The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella which allows the EU to invest on other things instead of defense. Another…
> Another less talked about is how the US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare by virtue of the obscene amount Americans pay and hence make profitable that industry to the benefit of all of humanity.
Health Disadvantage in US Adults Aged 50 to 74 Years: A Comparison of the Health of Rich and Poor Americans With That of Europeans - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661456/#:~:tex....
Differences in Health between Americans and Western Europeans: Effects on Longevity and Public Finance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383030/
US spends more than twice as much on health as similar countries for worse outcomes, finds report https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2340