And lastly, how about you open up your very own market to everyone by lifting protectionist taxes
It's well meaning but ultimately flawed. So long as humanity works "competitively" instead of sharing technology for the greater good - companies like Apple are the good guys, not the bad guys. They are trying to make the best products they can THEIR way because that's how this competitive market works.
So now EU is like "no no no you don't understand how to make good products, in fact you have no identity - you just build hardware and let people do whatever the F they want with it¨
Do not buy it.
> Are you serious?
I am.
LOL, like China is doing by forcing everyone into 51-49 joint ventures China owns?
Or like the US is subsidizing EV and battery production for stuff made in the US?
Don't be naive, everyone's doing it.
You either have a set of values, or you do not. The EU claims outwardly to have the values of being pro-privacy and pro-competition for healthy consumer markets.
However, these 2 supposed "values" only seem to come into play when it comes to regulating foreign tech companies that it cannot produce domestic competitors for.
The EU has loads of anti-competitive protectionist legislation, and re: privacy, the EU is in fact strongly considering legislation to ban encryption domestically as we speak. You can bet GDPR would not exist if Silicon Valley was located in the Rhine Valley.
Clearly these are not values. They are simply the amoral moves of opportunistic market participants (politicians), just like the companies being regulated.
This is not bad, this is just reality. But any claims of moral high-ground should be rightly shot down for what they are (BS).
I don't even know where you got that angle wrong, the EU CAP is renowned as a protectionist measure, and it's a core EU component. It's just an example.
> You can bet GDPR would not exist if Silicon Valley was located in the Rhine Valley.
That's your assumption.
But i guess one step at a time
It doesn't matter that they don't call it slave labor locally, label don't change the facts.
Seems more than justified to me.
It starts with access to healthcare insurance, for example. Try to get it as a non-permanent resident (who's not attending a school)! You have to have a job, there's no option to pay for yourself - unlike the US, where it's expensive but possible.
Any country that has incentives (here they are economics and race related) toward increasing prison population is one a citizen should be very wary of.
Depriving someone of their liberties should ALWAYS be a significant cost for the government doing it.
I'd recommend a stop around here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
A correct analogy would be if BMW was taking a 30% cut from anyone selling seat covers for for BMW cars and EU telling them to not do that.
I'm sure that this is the only thing preventing cheap chinese and indian labor to stomp over all the overpriced EU market.