Successful large companies start out as successful small companies driving innovation though. You say as much in your own post.

Europe isn't getting those small companies which is why it isn't getting the large ones. Notice the lack of major companies produced in the last 50 years as illustrated in the graphics in this article https://geekway.substack.com/p... . They're in a state of economic stagnation which is bad for their long term prosperity.

That's a South Park gag, not Family Guy.

How well protected will European workers be in 50 years? That continent is bleeding its wealth away right now, this should be a major problem to anyone over there who cares about keeping their first world standard of living.

It's not "pro-worker" to piss all your nation's wealth away making current generations happy so that future ones don't have anything.

The problem that Europe's top 20 are worth less than Nvidia can't just be hand waved away by claiming a bubble. Nvidia is certainly over valued right now but it's not that over valued. That is an absolutely insane amount.

This isn't just a thing with one US company either, this graphic does a good job illustrating the problem https://www.reddit.com/r/neoli... (we have 100 million less people then Europe too!). Europe has just gotten awful at creating wealth and if this is left unchecked it will eventually come back around and hurt their workers far more than US style labor laws ever hurt US workers. First world living costs money after all.

You must be a blast at parties.

I love how you double down on the stupid by trying to claim me pointing out reality is me being supportive of creeps. While I don't expect any less from a lame internet tough guy it still makes me laugh.

You sound like a ridiculous nerd trying to sound tough. The cops aren't going to care how much of a "tough guy" you are, get a clue.

In my experience criminals are far more careful about whom they try to intimidate with illegal guns then legal gun owners are in open carry places. It's legal in open carry places for them to display their piece after all. I know I've never had a criminal show me a gun with intent to intimidate but I've had legal gun owners in open carry red states do it a couple times.

Meanwhile, crime rates aren't any lower in open carry states so it's not like they're getting anything for having the privilege of being able to be intimidated by gun owners.

I've been hearing about and observing the fact that kids play outside far less the they used to https://web.mit.edu/writing/20... for so long I'm genuinely surprised to hear someone challenge this fact.

Huh, didn't mean for that to post AC.

Your post has a lot of what I've been thinking about in regards to this. I think there could be real value in making movie making affordable to anyone. I see it as taking movie making out of the hands of the money people and giving it to the creatives (where the art form would be better off) as major studios would no longer be necessary.

The levels of paranoia creeping into modern America are ridiculous. Like all crime in the US property crime is incredibly low by historic standards https://www.statista.com/stati..., if your home was safe in the 80's and 90's just by locking your doors odds are its safe today doing the same. Unless you live in an area with unusually high rates of crime it's very likely you don't need that privacy robbing camera on your front door that you pay a monthly fee for.

Kids don't play outdoors on their own anymore, I'm recorded walking up to half the homes I go to (soon to feature facial recognition), and Trump is sending the national guard into our cities all over an imagined crime problem.

Where we're free from having to deal with intimidation from assholes walking around town with guns. Well, outside of the cops.

Dishing out a few punches in the snout is a great way for the puncher to end up arrested.