There are no good tech people in Europe any more.
I'm going through Entrepreneur First right now -- three months in London, then the strongest teams take $250k and move to San Francisco. I've seen both ends of that pipe, and it only runs one way.
My feed is wall to wall with the opposite story: the London AI scene, the Paris one, the endless posts about Europe's comeback. It's cope, and it gets louder as Europe fades into irrelevance.
Look at who's left. The best people I knew in London have Bay Area addresses now, or they're working out how to get one.
Nobody serious is moving the other way -- they're moving to San Francisco, a half-boarded-up, fentanyl-soaked, cultureless city.
Europe's hype men post that way because facing reality means national, even continental, reform, and it is far easier to write "London is so back" than to do that. Posts ship, reform waits.
A continent that exports its best builders will not stay rich or free for long.
People come back when there's something worth building toward, a shared sense of what a country is, and what it wants to become.
English people when everybody uses our legal systems, political systems, industrial inventions and our language, but then say our culture isn't worth saving.
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