I like the EU, but what's annoying about things like this, or the Chat Control law that keeps getting pushed, is that civil society and privacy advocacy groups always need to stay vigilant and keep mobilizing people. It's an attrition game.
I wonder what harm companies are even claiming. But honestly makes perfect sense that Germany's current conservative government is in favor of it. Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?
> Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?
Honestly, reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve the dire situation of startups here. It's so bad right now that a tax advisor straight up told me to move to a less business-hostile country.
Totally agree!! But you never see anything remotely close to proposals like that from the people claiming they want less bureaucracy.
When they say less bureaucracy / deregulation, they just talk about tax cuts, less consumer protections and at worst artificially boosting large companies that are not innovating.
What is desperately needed is making the system less cumbersome and convoluted
They should just copy Polish laws. They are far from perfect, and yet they provided Poland with almost 30 years of stable, few percent growth, regardless of global and European economic struggles. When you plot the chart of Polish GDP even such a significant event as entering EU doesn't even register in the shape of the growth.
It recently had a bit of tax law upheaval, but things settled down since then. As for other issues it's politically stable, by which I mean consistently politically crappy.
True but Poland did come from a really really deep hole under the thumb of the Soviets. They were very thoroughly screwed over. I guess this is why Poland is the most anti russian country in the EU now (and rightly so)
Just saying that growth is pretty easy starting off from zero.
> reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve
I believe german citizens are actually against it. I may be wrong, but this is my personal observations. Source: I have tried to incorporate in Germany and I have incorporated in Poland.
You yourself may want to look at some stats regarding the size of the European Union to put that in perspective but I’ll do the math for you it’s 0.01% of people meaning that they were in fact correct… 99.99% of people have no interest in moving to freedom land.
Also keep in mind that these uncited figures you’ve magically produced conveniently cut-off before you started implementing a policy of kidnapping people off the streets without any right to a trial and shipping them off to 3rd world torture prisons.
This story you’ve made up about Europeans secretly craving to live in the US is one you’ve completely made up in your mind (or through that bullshit propaganda of “American exceptionalism” that the country is so in love with) and isn’t supported by any real world data.
Almost everyone in Europe thinks it’s a worse place to live, work, get sick in, get an education in or to die in. Again, all supported by hard data.
"I don't think anyone" - means zero, not "almost no one" - you yourself should probably study English some more.
And... let's put it this way - there are far fewer than 80,000 people who drive the growth of either the US or EU economy in non-linear ways. If 80,000 of the "wrong" (most positively impactful) people move from the EU to US, that's a big deal.
I'm pretty sure that I didn't implement any such policies. Did you implement the Third Reich's policies, sir?
There are apparently also stories that I've made up. Interesting. How's that mind-reading technology coming along?
Really only finding a way to match almost every negative US stereotype possible here. I feel like I lost brain cells just reading it. This is that famous education system in action.
I genuinely laughed when I read this. Like you had set up an argument in your mind where if even one person moved from the EU to the US you were going to be right and the best part is I don’t think you’re joking like you actually believed this. Back in the real world though everyone understands that 99.9% means everyone.
But sure, do go on telling people to “learn English better” while you proudly continue on through life with a first grade reading comprehension and math skills.
Typical. Make an argument. Be proven wrong. Lash out at the terrible US education system (which, of course, has most of the best universities in the world and to which many foreign people spend collectively billions of dollars to attend.) Goodbye.
P.S which one is it? The best in the world or terrible? You didn’t seem to be able to hold a coherent thought for a full sentence. Between this and an inability to understand the advanced statistical concept of percentages I can’t help but think that things aren’t going particularly well for you at the moment.
I see the opposite. A lot of US people trying to move here now that it's becoming unliveable there for eg trans people. I'm kinda in an lgbt bubble but still. I myself have informed my employer I will no longer even travel to the US for work. Visiting a country means subjecting yourself to its laws and I won't do that. Same with eg middle east. I'm kinda non-binary so trying to get an X passport now so I have an easier time refusing (as I wouldn't be accepted entry anyway)
Also for colleagues in India, scoring a job in America through our company was always the big ideal. That also is no more because nobody wants to be a second class citizen.
Literally so, because the European """Parliament""" is the only institution with this name that I'm aware of that does not have the power to introduce laws. Which means it doesn't have the power to repeal them.
In other words, the Commission can propose laws as many times as they want, and if they pass even once, the Parliament has no power to repeal it.
> civil society and privacy advocacy groups always need to stay vigilant and keep mobilizing people. It's an attrition game.
I'm not sure why you are singling out the EU Chat Control, when all the US "tech" sector have been playing this attrition game for 40+ years already...
It is indeed an attrition game, and the dominance of the adtech surveillance capitalism is the proof that we are already on the loosing side.
Maybe because that one everyone is used to, and this one is new? We get used to the status quo, but anything new is scary.
In this case, chat control is indeed scary, but the existing ad tech mass surveilance does not get much attention.
I wonder what harm companies are even claiming. But honestly makes perfect sense that Germany's current conservative government is in favor of it. Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?