[rmonvfer]

You wouldn’t even believe the stuff I’ve heard in “startup” and “innovation” spaces about regulation and stuff like government grants.

I usually hear the “we [europe] have some of the brightest minds, we can do anything” and sure, granted, but that’s not the issue and it has never been. Why would those bright minds want to build something in a place that’s so obviously against the very same idea of free competition? Of course they don’t, those who can just flee and those who can’t usually end up building some useless grant-ware in an endless cycle. That’s not to say that we don’t have great startups and entrepreneurs, we do, but I find myself fighting every day against a system that’s built for the state to decide what, when and how citizens must innovate (and live).

/s