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Comment by DataDive

5 days ago

The only problem of course it is that it costs a lot of money to do so.

Money they probably don't have.

Are you saying EU with its 450M people is lacking "money" and needs 350M US to do it for us? Because somehow "money" is what makes stuff to happen. Not labor.

  • Europes slice of global GDP has gone from ~30% (1980's) to ~17% (2020's), America's has remained at ~25%, and China has been on the rise, tbd if they can pass the US

    Population wise, 7%, 5%, and 16%

    Another statistic, the EU accounts for almost 50% of global social spending.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMjDmYqykNI (Stephen Kotkin - World on Fire?) (There are more than 100 armed conflicts going on right now, the most since the 1940s)

  • > Because somehow "money" is what makes stuff to happen. Not labor.

    With us 1.5B Indians, we can concur money is a big factor if not the biggest.

  • instead of 'money', the more precise term would be 'risk capital'. And yes, Europe has a stark shortage of that, which is why Euro startups raise in the US and when they go public, they go public on the US exchange.

    SpaceX and Tesla are together worth more than all companies on the entire German stock market put together.

  • I mean I hear people clamoring for a paycheck without work. I've never heard someone ask to work without a paycheck. So yes money seems like an important ingredient.