Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

Re:Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet... by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday January 24, 2026 @11:22PM (#46750679)

The causation is in the other direction. Innovative entrepreneurs cause wealth to become highly concentrated, and cause their companies to distort the societies they're embedded in, by the act of producing goods and services that a large number of people want to buy.

Bezos is actually a great example, because he made almost his entire US$250B fortune from unrealized stock appreciation rather than salary or new awards. Even the most extreme wealth tax proposals I've seen wouldn't get him down to US$25B. The US could only have achieved that target by restricting how much Amazon is allowed to innovate and grow.

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Re:Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet... by IrishTechie on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:55AM (#46752094)

I disagree. They could for example make it mandatory to grant more stock options to employees so the wealth they are generating is more broadly spread beyond the founder/CEO. I’m sure there are plenty of other approaches that would still handsomely reward innovation and growth but prevent where we ended up today.

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