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shimmantoday at 12:13 AM4 repliesview on HN

Looking at the US culture, it's not hard to see entrepreneurship as a societal disease.

Let's not act like "entrepreneurship" is necessary at all to develop technology. Western governments simply have no ability to find their own destination as any attempt to get off the US big tech ramp comes with threats to destroy defense treaties, weapons contracts, and tariffs with their major ally.

Hardly anything to do with "entrepreneurship" and more about the insidious nature of US imperialism and how damaging neoliberalism is to the world.

Good on Europeans for rejecting this American blight.


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WarmWashtoday at 1:00 AM

>Good on Europeans for rejecting this American blight.

Reject it? They pay hundreds of billions for it. Every year. For decades now.

Europe runs on American tech, using American and Chinese hardware, powered by American energy, and protected by American defense.

Surely you're confused here, because Europe didn't reject these things, they offshored them and then teased Americans about working so hard. Europe's economic situation right now is borderline catastrophic, mostly because they built a society on someone else's support in the uncannily calm times after the wall fell.

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abletonlivetoday at 12:19 AM

> Looking at the US culture, it's not hard to see entrepreneurship as a societal disease.

It's easy if you're in some nihilistic and cynical echochamber like reddit. For everybody else, entrepreneurship is still quite celebrated and seen as a positive for society.

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chinabottoday at 12:37 AM

Well said Comrade.

esafaktoday at 3:06 AM

Entrepreneurship is the fountain of wealth. What else are you going to do, extract natural resources?