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The New York Times has a story that delves into a conundrum faced by Europeans: Why are there few, if any, technology companies from Europe with the size and reach of American tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple?
The article hypothesizes that, even though employment regulations and other business and legal factors play a role, it's actually deeply-embedded cultural differences that are the primary cause, citing less aversion to risk-taking, less stigma from business failures such as bankruptcies, little or no stigma from leaving and rejoining a company which is seen as disloyal in European cultures, more acceptance of disruptive innovation, and a less rigid educational system that allows individuals to find their own form of success.
(Considering the many indications that US schools now train for tests, not knowledge, perhaps alternatives to school are more attractive.)
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:24PM
With this type of arguments you can point at the swedish Jas military plane, and say it is elite european poduct.
Ok, the engine might be Rolls Royce.
But the electreonics in it?
Elite europena FPGA with double elite european vector processors?
And the books the engineers read when they went to school?
Elite programming and electronics titles form europe or US?
And was it the elite european population thet led to the existence to those books and that technology, or was the existence of those based on US mechanics and electronics culture that started probably in the beginning of the century?
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax