> tech software is not a good basis for an economy. congratulation on your silicon valley companies, but your app, website and all this other entertainment bullshit is not going to survive in the long run. software and computer services are vulnerable as fuck to progress. if all you need is coding knowledge and a computer half of the world has the potential to compete with you, because the entry barriers are so low. look at china who does the same as usa with pumping billions into their companies to get an edge in tech. don't fool yourself, without government money silicon valley would be a failure. look at the history of how much money just the us military pumped into this region. billion dollar government contracts making sure they have a steady income stream. what europe has is the advantage in hard industries. our manufactoring and machines and the know how related to it. a simple example is the chip industry. who sells the machine that produces those high end chips? who sells the machines pumping concrete all the way up to the highest buildings build in the world? who sells the machines to dig those huge tunnels around the world? these are products that are really hard to copy. even if chinese spies steal the blueprint there is still secret process know-how and experience within the labor force. i prefer an industry that thinks and works in decades instead of hype products for the internet.  amazon? the chinese are already causing trouble with temu, alibaba competition. apple? the chinese are slowly damaging the brand and push they own products. tesla (software is a huge part of the company, the car itself is nothing special)? guess what, the chinese are aggressive as fuck in the ev business. a country should focus on hard industries, especially industries that exist for centuries like agriculture, steel, energy... let the free market do the tech stuff, except for national security reasons.
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