They gave up their bicycles and quaint straw hats for modernity and now they think they're entitled to the same standard of living as Americans.
nednobbins
joined 2 years ago
Don't care
It's easy to ignore the suffering of others. Have you spent any time in villages where the richest people live like medieval peasants because the whole town hasn't had any infrastructure improvements in over a century? "Rich" in those places just means slightly less desperately poor. They're quite egalitarian, it's just that they're all broke together.
I've never heard of Siemens referred to as an "automation company".
That's technically true but they're much more into heavy industry. They build power plants, trains, ports and industrial automation equipment. They've had to lay off some of their own employees but I'm not aware of any cases of their business putting other people out of work.
No shame.
I view it as a friendly competition between Europeans. Right now, Spain is in the lead. UK and Italy are trailing but they're still racing in the right direction. I'm cheering for them to catch up.
Is absurd that we essentially have a regressive income tax. I also wouldn't ignore the global environment during that period.
During those decades, the US was effectively the only industrialized nation in the world. Everyone else either never had factories to begin with, or had smoldering piles of rubble where their factories used to be.
Your post completely ignore my first and main sentence.
It's the timing that makes you an asshole, not your sentiment.
Israel is currently engaging in genocide. I know it. The UN knows it. Dogs know it.
Timing matters. I have family in Austria. I like a lot of things about Austria and I also don't approve of a lot of things the government does and did.
If someone were to have voiced that sentiment loudly in 1942, they'd probably be an asshole.
I really wish we could retire the phrase "tech bro".
It actively alienates allies that we desperately need.
The average techie does NOT fit the mold of "tech bro".
They tend to be very liberal https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/122582/web.345435/#/summary They tend to be more LGBTQ friendly than most industries https://www.spiceworks.com/hr/diversity-inclusion/guest-article/top-lgbtq-friendly-industries-in-the-us/
There's a loud minority of tech leaders who qualify as "tech bros" and they're not representative of the industry. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-20/california-silicon-valley-andreessen-zuckerberg-musk-donald-trump
If we continue to lump that large majority of nerds in with that group; at best we're wasting time yelling at allies, at worst we're driving them to the other side.