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Is Europe losing the AI race? Magnificent Seven widen gap over Europe's giants (www.euronews.com)
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He pointed to overregulation, fragmentation, and weak productivity as structural weaknesses, and urged European leaders to act on the 2024 report led by former ECB President Mario Draghi, which recommended โ‚ฌ800 billion in annual investment to strengthen industrial competitiveness.

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[โ€“] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, overregulation and weak productivity.

Let's keep on pushing that narrative. Regulation stands in the way of businesses. Policies promoting a healthy work life balance stand in the way of business growth.

Truly terrible things... For anyone who doesn't need to work every day for 40-50 years of their lives. For the vast vast majority these are things that make everyday life bearable.

Regulation is essential in avoiding a reality where you need to pay for the air you breathe. Weak productivity is a myth in Europe, the real difference with US is in the hours we work. And I fully agree this needs reform. Let's drop the working week to 4, no, 3 8-hour work days.

Just let people enjoy their short lives, you fucking greedy assholes.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

which country are you in?

iโ€™m fairly certain every european country is feeling some effect from low productivity growth

[โ€“] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What effects are those precisely?

Do yourself a favour and stop measuring success as a function of the difference with last year/quarter or another region's stats. If you want to compete, put the money where your mouth is, it's that simple. There are plenty of people who are hungry to build and develop businesses for 168 hours per week, they just get better opportunities to do it elsewhere. But why should everyone else be forced to follow that pace? Don't buy into skewed graphs meant to push somebody else's political agenda, do you own thinking.

What, GDP per capita per hour is less in my region? I'd be making 3x the money in my profession if I worked in the US? My quality of life is 10x better here than it would be there. And yes, I speak from experience.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

what is your region?

edit: for some reason when it comes to specifics you don't actually want to discuss it

sounds like a quick look at the quality of your life going down in your particular region would quickly unravel this whole idea of yours

[โ€“] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 0 points 17 hours ago

I didn't answer because it's irrelevant if I'm in Sweden, Spain or Greece. There's a plethora of economic issues across the continent, none of which is that we're falling behind on productivity. The point of this 'productivity' bs metric is to push for deregulation and less worker rights.

If you want to defend the premise of the article, you can do so regardless of what you know about me personally. Yet you haven't made a single argument.

[โ€“] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

losing the ai race is a w