This is pre MAGA thinking. Investing in strategic industries that otherwise pose systemic risk to European economies wouldn’t be our first choice, but it’s now necessary.

> I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages.

Depends which ones. Python? Definitely a source of slowness.

> True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages.

Yes it is. It's the same reason desktop GUI apps are now slower than Windows 95-era apps that were written in C.

It’s building infrastructure, which should lower costs in the long term. Seems like a good use of money from where I’m sitting.

> You do you, but increasing taxes to build products to replace products built by private enterprise sounds like a 180 degree opposite of what Europe needs to prosper.

Shhh, don't tell them.

(Kidding, of course.)

The best solution is skin-in-the-game, for-profit enterprise coupled with rigorous antitrust enforcement.

Companies will go a million times faster than open source. They're greedy and will tear the skin off of inefficiencies and eat them for lunch. That's what they do. Let the system of capitalism work for you. It's an optimization algorithm. One of the very best.

But when companies get too big and start starving off competition, that's when you need to declaw them and restore evolutionary pressure. Even lions should have to work hard to hunt, and they should starve and die with old age to keep the ecosystem thriving.