A lot of the doomerism around EU manufacturing has hit an absurd pitch recently that is already leading to a swing back of the pendulum in a growing number of "you'll be surprised to learn that the Euros are actually good at.." pieces
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Maybe next time the narrative could stick to a more grounded "the Europeans have some big problems in these areas, but are doing OKish in others" direction of travel. But I guess catastrophism gets the clicks.
Particularly when a lot of what is described as “tech” is in reality software whose ultimate existence is as a means of using disinformation to tempt in members of the public in order to scrape their data to sell it.
Right, but if there is a sudden need to not rely on US tech or their price unexpectedly skyrockets, Europe literally could not sustain it's core functions right now. A sharp loss of access to [Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Apple, Google] would be essentially impossible to manage
That sounds a bit negative to me, it will be akin to to loosing Russian Gas and we are not as prepared, but it can be done. I just doubt that the oligarchs would like it.
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Likewise your browser or office suit or email / comms etc...
Particularly when a lot of what is described as “tech” is in reality software whose ultimate existence is as a means of using disinformation to tempt in members of the public in order to scrape their data to sell it.
As to how Amazon is part of the core function of society for the EU, I’m unclear.