| It tells us that Israel have the same industrial military complex that US have Put it in another way: their success is due military application of technology Besides: what does counting unicorns proves? Is Israel GDP per capita higher than Germany? Is Israel richer than Germany? Europe values other metrics more than simply pure market valuation For example WhatsApp only employed 50 engineers when already had 900 million users In Germany, and Europe in general, we prefer businesses that increase the general population employment than pure profit margins EDIT: a few resources about military industrial complex in Israel https://medium.com/@davidsperorn/a-match-made-in-hell-israel... https://www.tni.org/es/node/13511 https://www.jstor.org/stable/174246 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0140239830843716... |