European industry is doing better than you may think

Thanks but the quality of the article is so low full of handwavy out of touch opinions dethatched form the real world. Like this: "This means Europe[...] should stop mourning old industries and ensure it can harness the power of AI and other new technologies to boost productivity."

It's like the author only looked at a graph and decided everything is rosy and you just need to add some AI on top to be perfect. And even funnier, the graph used in the article is from 2024. Like bro, you're 2 years out of date. Industry today, especially automotive is way worse than it was in 2024.

Sorry, but this isn't in any way a well researched article, but more of armchair Redditor opinion piece.

Why do you think there isn't perpetual demand for cheaper goods and why do you think people in general are sick of cheaper goods?

China makes products across all quality levels now, and local industry often cannot compete with China on price. Even if you don’t want to buy from China, the Chinese product will be compelling for a lot of people.

C'mon man. Cheap shit is the best way to raise quality of living for low income/poor families. You can buy everyday useful things for your home at like 1/3 of the price in those Chinese shops in many EU countries (Spain being a prime example with a lot of them everywhere).

There is huge demand for it and it is perpetual. Just walk into those stores and see how many people shop there.

Sometimes that cheap shit is better than European made stuff, unfortunately. I've had to order shoelaces from Aliexpress, because the only brand sold by my local supermarket (made in EU) is poor quality and breaks quickly. The Aliexpress version I found is half the price and much more durable. And don't get me even started on bathroom equipment... So much low quality crap is being sold, no matter where it was made.

it's a whole magazine. you pay for the magazine, not this one article.

If they can write the same with fewer words, it is better.

This sort of reasoning was always stupid, but it was more excusable before LLMs. Now that there's LLMs everywhere inflating word-counts with slop, you'd think that people would have learned by now to appreciate when an author doesn't over inflate an article which doesn't need to be very long.

It’s so shallow I learned nothing and way too short as well.

You could ask an LLM to make it longer