Well, it seems their fastest growing market (and largest?) is in the USA.

They, per the article, have set up manufacturing there and a research lab in SF.

The co-founder has also relocated to the USA.

Much of the dismissal I think doesn’t come from a bad place - people see potential in europe, why can’t we be a similar market?

Who is dismissing it?

Merz should introduce a law making such criticism a criminal offense.

Good thing then that the chancellor cannot just introduce laws in Germany then. One of the perks of having actual democratic institutions that aren’t just for show.

That's why Chat Control has vanished for good, and isn't going to be brought up over and over again until it eventually passes.

In Germany chancellor is a character who holds a parliamentary majority, and they creativity can and do introduce laws against the will of the majority of German voters.

Rarely the chancellor’s party holds the absolute majority so it’s not as simple as in countries with a the-winner-takes-it-all system.

Mostly there are coalitions that prevent too bad laws.

Sometimes that can also block good ones. Thanks FDP. I hope you are gone for good from any government for being one of the true ideology driven parties in Germany.

I'm thankful to the FDP for all the laws they blocked, forceful vaccination being just one example.

You seem to have the mistaken belief that democracy is the rule of the majority, which it is not. It is much rather the rule of the compromise, so whether the majority of the population does or does not want something is less relevant than wether a) that majority can organise a parliamentary majority too, and b) whether that popular desire is reconcilable with the law.

Besides, Germany is a representative democracy. There is no unified “will of the people” that isn’t manifested in the existing constitution of the parliament already. And if that’s what you’re hinting at: No matter how often AfD may claim to represent the will of the people, they decidedly do not do so; not even in Saxony-Anhalt.

It's funny how CDU and SPD always find a way to do something against the will of the citizens and find a good explanation. Whether their rule was good or bad is not subjective, average German lives much worse than in before Merkel era, and things are not improving.

You may point to the AfD, but they are just a boogeyman. They don't rule anywhere in Germany, and yet, the government use the scaremongering against the AfD to cover own wrongdoings. At this point, it's like Big Brother blaming the East Asian Empire (or was it Oceania?) and Goldberg for his own faults.

1984 should have been a warning, but Germany (and the EU in general) is using it more and more as an instruction manual.

People here work in the US tech bubble. The behavior you describe is indicative of fear.

news.ycombinator.eu

SCNR

There was an interesting study showing that while social mobility is generally greater in Europe than in the US, the European tendency to underestimate vs American to overestimate it, results in broad agreement that social mobility is in fact greater in the US.

Poking holes in every new idea is a pan-European pastime - it's how people in this region of the world managed to survive despite exhausting its resources.

Surely you can cite the study

Not that guy, but this was easy to find

[1] https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/how-closely...