People forget.
The concept of the EU was a result of WWII. Control coal and steel production to prevent Germany (or other but let’s be real) to star another war.
Now we get to carry the consequences of mama Merkel from 2015 while she sipps pina coladas at the beach.
Nothing is ever free.
Something socialism doesn’t seem to understand.
Someone always needs to pay. Be it free healthcare, education, housing, subsidies or an ever-expanding welfare state.
Every government promise comes with a bill. And that bill is ultimately paid through taxes, debt, inflation or economic opportunities that never materialize.
You cannot endlessly redistribute wealth without creating the conditions for people to generate it in the first place.
France is another warning sign of Europe’s growing political paralysis.
Thousands of regulations are created to prevent innovation, all under the pretext of “protecting customers.” Yet when it comes to protecting people, preserving culture, enforcing the law and maintaining public order, the same political establishment freezes like a sitting duck.
The middle class is being squeezed by rising taxes, increasing costs and endless bureaucracy. Businesses are suffocating under regulations, while immigration and integration policies remain deeply contested and political leaders hesitate to make difficult decisions.
Violent protests, vandalism and the destruction of public property cannot be tolerated. The right to peaceful protest is fundamental, but it does not extend to destroying the very communities people claim to defend.
Europe needs leaders willing to take decisive measures to restore order, enforce the law consistently, address immigration policy failures and remove unnecessary barriers to innovation and economic growth.
A government that can regulate every aspect of doing business but struggles to maintain order on its own streets has its priorities seriously wrong.
Protecting citizens, preserving the rule of law and creating the conditions for prosperity are fundamental responsibilities of government.
More bureaucracy is not a substitute for leadership.
Today is my X anniversary
I initially joined Twitter to follow the blocksize war and learn about this thing called ethereum
how time flies
The UN meeting in New York just goes to show that the world bureaucracy is lead by grandfathers
Some of the probably aren't allowed to drive cars anymore, but they're allowed to govern world policies
Make it make sense
AI is creating two startup markets.
You can build a software company with less capital than ever, while VCs write bigger checks than ever.
The middle looks kinda painful.
lemec retweeted
Just saw an Instagram reel which is a parody of the EU tech scene:
- send out GDPR notices every morning
- commute exclusively by bike with a gdpr compliant app
- that app doesn't work on Tuesdays (to offset data center emissions)
- all employees get 3 hr lunch breaks + 67 days of vacation
- founders on 36 months of paternity leave
- 3G towers are the best ones in the world
- just raised €4,700
- go to tech conferences to see what technology US is building
- then ban the technology immediately
- national pastime is fighting for labor laws
And a couple more I can't remember.
Five years ago, I would have been slightly offended by something like this, and would have tried to brush it off as exaggerated.
Now, I feel it's mostly true. Every day, the EU is sliding backward from the frontier.
The main reason I want a pump is to revive the momentum and see what was built during the bear market.
I'm sure there's plenty of teams eager to announce some fun stuff.
In Europe we act out of a deficit - you're scared of breaking a law due to extreme overregulation, which is what most time is spent on: Negative mindset
In the US they act out of abundance - your environment supports and rewards pushing limits of new things: Positive mindset.
Most people building in Europe are technically excellent, but almost half a decade behind atm.
Even the experienced engineers are embedded so deep in the old way of building that asking them to work agent-first feels like attacking their craft. "You want me to write in English instead of code?" "You want an agent to ship the feature?" They look at you like you're killing something sacred.
Also, almost everyone there assumes the endgame is getting acquired by Google or selling to a bigger company. A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to an EU founder at an event, and he genuinely couldn't understand why we wouldn't want to be acquired.
The mindset gap between SF and Europe is widening every month. Not a very pleasant thing to see.
I've been in crypto too long to the point where the delusion of the new gen just annoys tf out of me.
Then I do some self-reflection and realize, we were once where they are.
Is this what being old feels like?
(I'm in my late 20s ffs)
Everything is relative.
The same goes for this anxiety pump in BTC and alts.
We got the most "crypto-friendly" president in history and the first things he did was kick off a memecoin extraction epidemic that nuked what little credibility the market had left.
There’s a lot of damage to undo.
