@squad_co1541 No it is much more central European Mittelstand culture, guild traditions, decentralized regionalised specialisation that prevented that. Paris, London, already mega cities in 1500.
@MichaelAArouet In almost every area of quality precision production Europe far outperforms America. Europe manufactures more, and in superior quality. American excels in patenting, imposing digital toll booths globally, Ponzi schemes, and financial speculation. Retards call that "innovation"
@RefinedPopulist@neipate96 No, it shows that you are stupid. US is in more debt than Spain, growth is similar since HSR (much more in Spain actually until the 2008 crisis, again, caused by america, who could avoid the consequences of it by exporting its debt globally).
@OneFineJay The only brain drain from Europe to america was when america stole all German Patents, designs, scientists, etc. after ww2, and then used them to spread and enforce a property rights regime on the world where america can sit and collect global tribute like the gangster it is.
@aggie_hood@InHumaneShape@blondesnmartini "food"
Lmao yeah thanks Norman Borlaug for feeding excessive third world population growth and destroying 95% of global crop biodiversity. How awesome for countless landraces to be replaced with unhealthy (often GMO) wheat/corn/soy. Thanks america!!
@AStev1689@Andial23@blondesnmartini No that's objectively what it is. All human activity beyond tourism and employees is basically prohibited/ walled off.
@flipseider@Andial23@blondesnmartini Not true! What are called "national parks" in Europe are mostly not IUCN Category II National Parks (what American national parks are) . For instance UK has 15 national parks but they are all category V ("protected landscape").
@AStev1689@Andial23@blondesnmartini European conservationism was more about coexistence and harmony (Kulturlandschaft) than walling off nature and turning it into a museum spectacle where humans exist only as consumers rather than participants.
@number_pizza111 Central Europe is like this generally. Vienna an exception not because the capital city is disproportionately large but because the modern country and imperial city were never a fit in the first place.