"Stop spending your billions in our country and providing good jobs you jerk!!"
Google for all it flows were the first with amazingly good search, first very good web based email and first very good maps with turn by turn navigation. It saved me and all of Europe so much time and money I don't think the whole of EU budget with all of the programs would ever come close to it.
Those companies offer tremendous value for hundreds of millions of people in Europe every day. Honestly I would rather have the whole German economy with their polluting cheating cars and idiotic EU programs that got snatched by grant seeking industries at the cost of bigger taxes for real business go bust than Google or Amazon.
I am still waiting for an EU company to come up with anything remotely as useful.
We Europians love to brag about superior values and about culture. (Have to ignore how we got there) If we build all those things ourselves (which we didn't) they would be a better fit.
The Chinese have their own eco system with that dictatorial control over content and the slave labor which doesn't line up with our values but they do have their own thing. The US system of tracking and data mining ur mum for purposes of drone strikes also doesn't really tickle our fancy. Platforms that can kill off your business whenever they like in a "sucks to be you" kind of way is not really how we want things to work in Europe. If any stereotype can be had we are more of a "does what it says on the can" kind of people.
Very brave of you!
Use google translate if you don't speak spanish
When Bezos spends billions in the Netherlands building a new yacht, those are real jobs putting real food on people’s plates.
No doubt they’ll be be happy to hear how the country has “dobe just fine”.
Again, another citizen willing to cost a fellow citizen their job. Very brave of you!
I'm sure you have something more intelligent to say despite being HN's most prolific shoeshine connoisseur.
How does the GP reflect a typical american mentality? How does that differ from a typical European mentality?
How is he wrong?
People are bitching about his yacht and moving the bridge and I’m saying you should be fucking thankful he’s building it in the Netherlands.