Comment by jokethrowaway
3 years ago
We Europeans are generally used to do whatever the government tell us.
We don't have the same culture as Americans.
Don't get me wrong, you had a pretty bad deal as well: without much fanfare, your government grew up so much in the last 200 years that it became the largest employer in the world. You pay loads of taxes (even more than several EU countries) and get very little benefits.
And yet, I'm sure that if we will get to a political solution to the ever-growing cancers that governments are, that solution is more likely to appear in the states than in Europe.
Europe is a hopeless - albeit beautiful - land. The people gave up change 50 years ago.
>We Europeans are generally used to do whatever the government tell us.
As opposed to those who used to do whatever the private companies tell them?
Err, just to avoid further misunderstanding: I'm pro-GDPR ;) and think it's right to confront users with the hydra behind the crap on the web. What I think has destroyed the web is attention economy, monopolies, the race to the bottom, and lack of incentive for quality content.
Agree though that Europeans could do with more libertarianism and less trust in state; it's something that's been a big issue for me since at least CoVid hysteria.