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Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by Jach on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:31PM (#29657688)
If the US is Jurassic Park, what was the place you came from?
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by john_moscow on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:41PM (#29658412)
You'd be surprised, but many Western European countries have a concept of being decent, sense of duty, etc. While the modus operandi in the U.S. seems to be "go for it, as long as you can get away without getting jailed or sued".

On the other hand, the European culture pushes back quite heavily towards fitting in and against entrepreneurship, so neither of them is perfect.

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by bitcharmer on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:48PM (#29658451)
> On the other hand, the European culture pushes back quite heavily towards fitting in and against entrepreneurship, so neither of them is perfect.

I've lived in Europe (a few different countries) over 40 years. What your saying is simply not true.

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by john_moscow on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:05AM (#29658838)
Lived in Western Europe for a while. Most innovative small businesses I've seen involved fudging the numbers in some way to get government grants.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by kortilla on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:21AM (#29660449)
Then where are all of the innovative companies? Europe has a massive drain brain problem because it absolutely does not reward innovation in any business sense.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by Jach on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:58PM (#29667504)
In case mmaunder comes back to reply soon, what I'm getting at that the other replies don't seem to address is what metaphor do you use for where you came from? The reason is because the idea of immigrating to Jurassic Park seems crazy to me unless you're in a much crazier spot already. To me Jurassic Park is something you might want to visit if you really like dinosaurs and get a thrill from danger, but not live in. Technically I do live "in the park" but while I don't see it as such I have occasionally thought about going elsewhere, so it'd be nice to have another data point in places to avoid/why. Is it simply that there's no other place with dinosaurs? (Perhaps dinosaurs being a metaphor for entrepreneur opportunities as replies are hinting at? Though I don't think you're getting at that since you ride them all off as monsters with one of the iconic dinos being "debt" rather than an opportunity.)
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by bitcharmer on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:46PM (#29658437)
I'm guessing they are from some place where people can live their lives without having to worry about that as much.

Europe?

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by frockington1 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:48AM (#29661331)
Europe's national bonds are currently yielding negative while their inflation is soaring. Europe makes America look like controlled spending so probably not there. Could be a smaller and more sheltered nation like Monaco or Switzerland
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by xwdv on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:44PM (#29657757)
The Matrix.