[mech998877]

Look at GDP growth in the US vs EU over the last 10 years or so if you want to talk about innovation. Europe has been stagnating economically and real productivity growth is critical to a modern economy. The large hadron collider does some impressive research, but it doesn't move the sort of innovation in practical machinery and infrastructure that powers a modern economy.

[mrguyorama]

All that GDP growth in the US is advertising. Google isn't some sort of innovator. They sell advertisements.

What practical machinery and infrastructure has the US innovated in that time frame?

[mrDmrTmrJ]

Google's research team invented the Transformer Architecture at the center of LLM "AI". A huge invention.

California has added roughly 17GW of grid-scale batteries in the last five years. Modern GPU (NVIDIA). Modern electric car (Tesla). Reusable Rockets (SpaceX).

I agree that the US has an "Only Elon-led companies can get things done outside of computers" problem.

[brnt]

Comparative GDP based on more current methods (well, decades too at this point) rather than the graphs you are probably seeing show a stable co-trend over the past quarter century.

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/us-europe-comparative-productivi...