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I live in the US but almost all the apps and services I use, and that my multinational company use, are all headquartered and founded in the USA. I don’t think we use a single service that’s based out of Europe or Asia. I don’t know any European startup or big company whose services I use frequently besides Spotify. Meta, google, Netflix, a bunch of database and infrastructure services, AWS, etc. are all based in the USA. It seems to me like 90% of the innovations come from the US. Whether that is software, hardware, medicine, defense, etc. all the things at massive scale at use in the world come from here, and maybe later on get moved to being made elsewhere. Maybe that has something to do with it? Even the company I work at, which was at one point a unicorn before ipo, and services a massive global industry, is based here and has auxiliary offices (support, sales) in other countries. Anything mission critical is built here, even if it’s only for an international market. Maybe there are some industries that pay well overseas compared to here because they are better innovators and more mature? |