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Mate if you're going to cherry pick about "markets and alignment"

-> More people have died in the EU from heat waves due to lack of air conditioning than gun violence in the US. Ratio is worse if you remove suicide gun death.

Societal choices do have consequences!

The EU doesn't have to kill jobs. The companies are doing that on their own because they cannot compete. Take a look at what is happening in Germany.

The whole point is the EU should be more competitive. It would be great if they could create jobs instead of giving them to Instagram.

That's what everyone wants. No one wants to live in the 9/9/6 grind hellscape.

But you cannot regulate the world there. EU has tried. It has not worked.

This is only a clear-eyed assessment.

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> More people have died in the EU from heat waves due to lack of air conditioning than gun violence in the US.

People in Eu died due to global warming which EU actually tried to deal with. Meanwhile, USA is major contributor to the warming and intentionally torpedoed last chance to make it better. Yes, the temperature is raising faster in Europe then elsewhere. That was not caused by the lack of air conditioning.

Heat waves are new. I don't know why are some Americans trying to create moral panic around air conditioning, it is not like it was illegal in Europe. Air conditioning wont stop global warming. EU do need to plant more trees in cities to create shades and start building houses that will keep cool better. And it is doing so. And again, EU genuinely tried to slow the global warming.

EU should be more integrated, sovereign, autonomous, making thrive cooperation through all its counties and talented people and with non-hostile extra-European actors.

But competition is just a trap of short term view. Competition is for losers. Competition is war in disguise that will drop the mask as soon as it feels it is now offering more short term return to the predation mindset eager to destroy everything it can devour. Competition want everyone to be serf. Competition eats Moloch for breakfast thinking how to optimize the pipeline of Moloch production and how to eat them all faster.

Europe must free itself from the competition myths, and the sooner the better.

> -> More people have died in the EU from heat waves due to lack of air conditioning than gun violence in the US. Ratio is worse if you remove suicide gun death.

That is mostly on how heat deaths are counted in eu vs usa. In usa heat must be mentioned as a cause of death on the certificate but as those who die in heat waves mostly have underlying issues heat is rearly put as cause of death. In the eu you don't need heath mentioned on the death certificate to count it as a heath death, they count excess deaths.

You need the full picture.

Heat is more lethal the older you get. Guess who has the higher life expectancy and more old people who can die of heat.

On top of that come non-unjusted work ethics especially in countries like Germany where non working hours on the hottest hours is still seen as lazy (like the southern Europeans are often seen)

> Take a look at what is happening in Germany.

It’s called resting on one's laurels.

They still try to save ICE cars and fight renewable energy sources. It’s a shame given that Germany once was leading in solar energy.

They can compete but they think they could turn back the wheel of time and could stay on previous technology.

> But you cannot regulate the world there. EU has tried. It has not worked.

You don’t need the regulate the world. Capitalism follows every regulation if the market is big enough and the EU still is big enough. They just aren’t consistent enough in enforcing it because of lobbying of shortsighted companies.

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