> People really want to bring down the growth of the USA's software industry to EU level.
The EU is the only place hiring software engineers right now. Everyone in the U.S. just keeps laying them off.
> People really want to bring down the growth of the USA's software industry to EU level.
The EU is the only place hiring software engineers right now. Everyone in the U.S. just keeps laying them off.
That hiring is by US companies moving at US speeds, who greatly eclipse the growth rate of EU companies, which is the point OP was making.
I think "innovativeness" is massively overrated compared to network effects and consolidation.
Spotify is European. Any innovative SV companies going to unseat them with sheer pluckiness? Same goes for Meta or Amazon going the other way.
China and to some degree Russia have their own ecosystems due to anti-innovative barriers they put up.
> China and to some degree Russia have their own ecosystems due to anti-innovative barriers they put up.
You can add Korea to this list.
Some of that is US companies hiring in the EU because the salaries are lower. Source: I know of multiple companies, even on the smaller side, doing this.
USA is bullying europe into buying billions and billions worth of € in weapons and we're supposed to feel sad a couple of your jobs move to europe?