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Daniel Wigton · 3w
I kinda disagree. The US is still the freest and most optimistic country. I can't think of a single country that isn't dumber outside the vatican. We don't get dragged to jail for thought crimes like...
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It's true that investors prefer to invest in the capital of the empire, using the capital's currency and holding shares in their companies, rather than some provincial backwater. The financial markets in the USA are much wider, deeper, and more liquid. In particular, California.
Daniel Wigton · 3w
Yes, but money aside, it is easier to start a rocket company anywhere in the US than is it to pave a parking lot in the Cotswolds. That is of course a slight exaggeration and picking on a particularly persnickety corner of the UK. But in general the long history of Europe makes it very difficult to...