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You can reach a $100B market cap simply by creating an amazing product that people all over the world want to use, no monopoly required. A prerequisite for this, of course, is an ecosystem that encourages and efficiently enables the creation of amazing products.
What's an example of one?
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It's a mixed bag. I think you're trying to refer to the Digital Markets Act indirectly at least with part of your comment. Actually, I mostly believe in this regulation. Gatekeepers are a new kind of monopoly/government. This, too, discourages innovation. The US should have a spine against these companies. I'm glad the EU is, at least, trying to. It also doesn't really affect small business. Or, indeed, helps them. I…
> I hope they can, in the end, force Apple to allow more than safari browser on iphones so PWAs can be a real thing. You really have to respect Apple though: Despite the fact that they have approximately 30% market share in smart phones globally, and even smaller fraction of the overall browser market, they have single-handedly prevented PWAs from becoming a thing. It’s even more amazing when you consider how Apple w…
/lays down 20,999 page book
If there was one group to look to for the future of human development, it would western Europe. These countries mostly have a terrific quality of life, the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally. It's a shame, then, that they are unable to make attractive economic rules, and organize in a way that can sustain them. Specifically as it pertains to EU economic planning…
> These countries mostly have [...] the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally. At least the German society is fragmented into lots of milieus that rather distrust each other; see for example the following German article: > Jahrhundertaufgabe Migration: „Es gibt gar keine deutsche Gesellschaft mehr“ > https://www.focus.de/experts/sozialforscher-jahrhundertaufga... I…
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> These countries mostly have [...] the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally. At least the German society is fragmented into lots of milieus that rather distrust each other; see for example the following German article: > Jahrhundertaufgabe Migration: „Es gibt gar keine deutsche Gesellschaft mehr“ > https://www.focus.de/experts/sozialforscher-jahrhundertaufga... I…
This is an English speaking forum. At least provide an English summary. Very few people will be able to read a swath of German text.
> The goal remains German society, but this German society as it has existed for a long time - not homogeneous, but held together by common values and norms - has changed fundamentally. Technological progress, globalization and increasing individualization have dissolved this framework, which has certainly been successful in terms of integration, and have caused the big picture to fragment into many societies. Today, there is no longer a society, but rather numerous realities of life, usually called milieus, that exist side by side, and each has its own ideas of a good and proper life. Its own norms, individual behavior patterns and different values. This may have always existed in larger blocks, but never in such a variety of differences and individualism. Let's stick with the classic milieus that can be reliably proven. Hedonists, who primarily seek fun and pleasure, have different goals than precarious people, for whom the next meal is sometimes the main concern. Traditional or post-materialists prefer completely different solutions to problems. Take the energy transition, the deportations mentioned above, or gender language as keywords here. The adaptive-pragmatic middle is much more flexible than the old bourgeois world or the established establishment. And so it continues. Yes, there are overlaps, but some milieus are so far apart that consensus is becoming increasingly difficult to find. That is of course a euphemism. In reality, people today are bitter, almost hostile towards one another, insist on their opinions and often show little willingness to compromise. A look at reality should suffice here. [...] Germany lacks a uniform social framework that sets norms and values that everyone can agree on. Historical narratives such as the promise of social advancement or trust in state institutions are losing their appeal, which further weakens social cohesion. [...] The result must then be an increase in social tensions, as even more groups with different values and norms coexist in a society without understanding or accepting each other. Even in German society, this leads to fierce milieu conflicts that are hardly controllable. Just look at the current mood in the country. Do we want to create many more isolated realities of life through inaction?"
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> These countries mostly have [...] the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally. At least the German society is fragmented into lots of milieus that rather distrust each other; see for example the following German article: > Jahrhundertaufgabe Migration: „Es gibt gar keine deutsche Gesellschaft mehr“ > https://www.focus.de/experts/sozialforscher-jahrhundertaufga... I…
This is an English speaking forum. At least provide an English summary. Very few people will be able to read a swath of German text.
For me, it is a very common experience (both online and at work (because I have work colleagues whose native language is neither German nor English)) to see texts in languages that I barely understand. Having to use some translation service to at least get a glimpse of the meaning of such texts is just my usual daily experience.
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> participants are appraised based on the value they provide to the society How do you measure that? And who decides?
That is up to a fair, well governed, market to decide that. And before you say something along the lines of: "Well, the market want McDonalds food and snort themselves to death in cocaine" - let's just stop it there and think, in silence, about what a fair market is.
Free markets on the other hand have already devised pretty effective ways to measure value and allocate resources.
I think this is Draghi's report. The proposals are already outdated of course, Europe is way behind and unable to play catch up. What i find is funny that it proposes new committees to reduce regulation. And new funding for pie-in-the-sky projects, as if we don't have various research funding schemes that have spurred the creation of thousands of research grant mills across the EU. Draghi's 'whatever it takes' turned…
If there was one group to look to for the future of human development, it would western Europe. These countries mostly have a terrific quality of life, the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally. It's a shame, then, that they are unable to make attractive economic rules, and organize in a way that can sustain them. Specifically as it pertains to EU economic planning…
> If there was one group to look to for the future of human development, it would western Europe. These countries mostly have a terrific quality of life, the highest trust societies in the world, and, until recently, the moral high ground generally.
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That is up to a fair, well governed, market to decide that. And before you say something along the lines of: "Well, the market want McDonalds food and snort themselves to death in cocaine" - let's just stop it there and think, in silence, about what a fair market is.
So what is a "fair market" then? Also "well governed"?! Free markets on the other hand have already devised pretty effective ways to measure value and allocate resources.
When we have a grasp of an unfair malgoverned market, then we can think about what a fair we'll governed market is.
It is probably not the same for you and I.
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This is an English speaking forum. At least provide an English summary. Very few people will be able to read a swath of German text.
There exist, for example, Google Translate and DeepL. For me, it is a very common experience (both online and at work (because I have work colleagues whose native language is neither German nor English)) to see texts in languages that I barely understand. Having to use some translation service to at least get a glimpse of the meaning of such texts is just my usual daily experience.