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It matters if not everything is about money.

Is 15k extra per year an effective boost to happiness?

Is 15k enough to keep working for Big Brother, in a job with very limited freedom, professionally and socially

Is 15k enough to keep working in a company that keeps users addicted to unhealthy behaviors?

I don't mind the assumptions. I don't think we are unfairly characterized.

What we are is unfairly treated most of the time.

Correct. The government has a spending target, let's say 56% of GDP (that is taxes, how much you can borrow from creditors, and how much money printing you can afford).

Then they divide that money in categories, and it turns out IT industrial policy got allocated that much money, which they divide into projects.

In this project, they build a comittee, which decides the best is to subsidise cool sounding initiatives by well connected, politically correct groups.

Top to bottom government spending that goes wasted in politically connected groups that give nothing back to society.

Why do governments feel compelled to constantly intervene in businesses?

What market failure (apparently unique to Germany) are they fixing?

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I have like 4 different responses. 1) Open source is a human right, 2) security is a mess, 3) China has proven an invasive industrial policy can be successful, and 4) Government intervention is important to prevent wealth imbalances

So my conclusion given the lack of consensus is that this fund is totally pointless.

20k of GDP per capita means in any year of your life, even after 65.

People migrate to the US before the EU. Besides, US lifestyle (also a high tax country btw) is not the only possible alternative to european style quasi socialism (56% on the way there)

56% of GDP amounts to around 20k euro per person and year

Would you rather get the public health and education, or keep the 20k euro and find a solution for yourself?

I reckon that my health expenditures are 1000 per year, and I am self-taught, so I don't need the government for anything.

What we need is to make the public services Opt-in/Opt-out, so people who find it competitive like yourself can keep enjoying it.

56% of GDP in public spending in no rush to become more efficient. In fact, quite the contrary.

Compare this with the cut throat competition in Sillicon Valley or the international arena.

That's how you end up with non existent tech offerings in Europe.

It's quite off-puting branding, playing with the flag of a bureaucratic institution like the EU.

If it was about what Europeans create, I would be receptive. Instead, they are promoting whatever is in the European Commission agenda, which is radically different to what I need.

Is Google not just one massive web scraper?