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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by satvikpendem on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:41AM (#40897225)
It's not just that but also the mindset of entrepreneurship and growth versus stagnation and la dolce vita, which, while nice in the short term, is untenable in the long term.

Pieter Levels of NomadList fame talks about this often [0][1][2], he is Dutch, not American, so it's not like he's biased for America but he notes that it is disheartening for him to see Europe slip into mediocrity over time.

[0] https://x.com/search?lang=en&q=Europe%20(from%3Alevelsio)&sr...

[1] https://x.com/levelsio/status/1784943280171467260

[2] https://x.com/BolognaFishMD/status/1771695080862085211

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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by tchalla on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:55AM (#40897312)
And yet he continues to live in Europe despite having other choices.
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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by satvikpendem on Sunday July 07, 2024 @10:23AM (#40897951)
He doesn't live in Europe.
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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by tchalla on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:08PM (#40900088)
He literally said he lives in Europe on Twitter.

https://x.com/levelsio/status/1809779394719654257?s=12

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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by satvikpendem on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:32PM (#40900241)
Ah I didn't see his latest reply, he normally lives in Asia, I thought he was still there. Regardless, he can live there and still want to improve his continent, as he mentions. Your comments remind me of this meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by pieterhg on Saturday July 13, 2024 @01:59PM (#40955652)
Yep, wanna improve my continent
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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by satvikpendem on Saturday July 13, 2024 @02:07PM (#40955708)
Nice, Pieter, hope everything is going well with you.
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Re:Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to ... by eastbound on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:44AM (#40897686)
> slip into mediocrity over time

Europe has been mediocre for the entire modern times. France’s Haussmann marks the end of it with the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (Eiffer Tower) which really attracted people. Since then, we had to be rescued by Americans every time we went into war (even in Vietnam) and the art capital of the world is NYC. Maybe De Gaulle revived France a little (and he leveraged the UK/US help for that), but nowhere near what Shanghai or San Francisco did.

Europe is fine as a former success. Happiness has been high, life expectancy too.

Except it is now being ruled over by people who will neither bring it to the sky again, nor will keep the existing inhabitants.

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