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The share of investments made in the European chip sector shrank compared to worldwide spending, falling from around 10% in 2000 to 4% in 2010, according to the European Court of Auditors. Since then, the situation has not improved.

  • verdi@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    I disagree, we end up in the hands of US conglomerates because both EU and US antitrust enforcements are a joke. We lack enforcement to structure the incentives. There’s 0 chance that a true democratic society would allow meta to operate Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp under the same umbrella. Further, the US prints the world reserve currency, so trying to compete at their “hook people on free services (aka, vc funded dumping) and when competition dies, enshitify” is a losing game. We need to play a different game, innovate in fiscal regulations.

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      10 days ago

      How do fiscal regulations help with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp?

      We need to play a different game

      Having average people own the companies is different. What do you have in mind?