Yeah that's why almost all of the most successful big tech is in EU /s

I never understood this line of reasoning.

What do you get in return from having “successful” big tech companies in your country?

It's not even my country. My point was regulations like these (not this particular one, in general) cripple innovation.

Regulations should be there for safety related issues, not company's designs and own policies.

It doesn’t answer my question though. What do we get, as member of a society, if one or two companies get to be huge and become monopolies? What’s the societal benefit of that?

I also don’t think regulations like these cripple innovation. They make it harder to compete against more unregulated markets, that’s for sure, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing overall.

Honestly, I'm a bit more regulation-friendly than you, I remember the whole 2000-2010 decade where you had one charger per phone, in a house with 4 people, some with work phone, all incompatible. The switch to one, maybe two kinds of charger was a clear improvement.

Correlation is not causation.

Not to mention Big Tech got its start in the USA before the EU existed.

It's not false, but having "big tech company" isn't the only metric of success of a society.

Stuff like quality of life, workers rights, shared values are a bit more important, and that requires the ability to basically tell a company "Who the hell do you think you are?".

Have you heard of SAP? Probably not, most people haven't.

… which is funny because the entire corporate world runs on SAP. Including all of big tech.

> The company is the largest non-American software company by revenue and the world's third-largest publicly traded software company by revenue.