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Europe raised me to fail and here is why

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If you are ambitious and want to work hard and build and solve problems, it's just a way better reality. That optimistic outlook, and the idea that you can do it, is so freeing and fun if you like to build and solve problems.

I felt the burden of accumulated rules and scarcity mindset back in Europe. And if you want to build a company you feel the push down at every layer. You feel it from family, friends, clients, co-founders, the government, etc. I cannot see myself coming back and living there.

People are different and countries are different, so you can experience a glimpse of abundance mentality in Europe too at different levels, but very very far from the way you experience it in the US. They have tons of problems too, but if you solve problems at scale you make the money to solve most of those problems.

So the good move is to build business in US, fleecing people there and turning it even more into dystopia, and live in EU and keep it the way it is - liveable - because people have self-restraint here and unlimited, reckless, net-negative greed is not considered a virtue.

There are some valid points in there but “Europe” is too vague a label for this post. It’s the difference between Greece and the US (or Greece and SFBA).

Applies for most of Europe too imo. Major exception being Switzerland and by God does this tiny country punch over its own weight. Right across my office we have pharma and biotech labs, hedge fund headquarters and family offices, farmland, advanced machinery companies, chemicals factories, crypto and AI startups, ski resorts and lake hotels, all located on a 240 km2 patch of land.

It's much easier to start up a company in the US than it is in any part of Europe.

This is just an LLM leaning into stereotypes.

Another way to interpret this junk, in the US:

- There are no consequences for repeatedly losing other peoples' money

- The wealthy live it up, coming up with new ways to fleece people while normal people have to work extra jobs to earn a living

- Fake hype and lies work

- "Your competition can't plan against you if you don't have a plan"

What even does this guy sell?

Even the text touches some really good points, after reading his bio on Twitter, it shouts some LinkedIn AI text crap.

Spot on.

Reads like GPT attended a cult initiation.

Sorry America. We used to be sending our best, now we are sending our most insufferable.

I wonder what has changed for you to attract these guys?

What changed is that LLMs allow people who can’t write to generate pieces that sound like they were shat out by a middle manager high on his own LinkedIn page. This post is pure, 100% slop.

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