Escaping Germany in Public

Enough is enough - looking for help that I can escape this shithole

[Escaping Germany in Public @ro_bernhardt]

to understand why Europe is in the position it is, we need to go back to the foundations what the EU has been from its beginning:

a cartel between states with the purpose of stopping destructive competition between the German State and its neighbors

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@CEOLandshark getting too early into austrian economics and ayn rand is also bad. you start seeing the whole world as a fraud and fake game and that doesn't exactly help in winning in it

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@bitcloud I would've preferred the AI Last Jedi version

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@RokoMijic Yeah sure - the USSR, famous for its rational war planning, which helped them to avoid having to sacrifice tens of millions of their citizens against irrational germany. Oh wait...

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The stock exchange kinda stopped crashing after the financial crisis and when it happens, the central banks print more money so fast that it recovers in no time. What’s the price paid for suppressing this volatility?

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Nothing is more motivating than seeing your less talented rival succeed

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Brand loyalty is a symptom of people with decision fatigue

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The future of public broadcasting is lying in its foundation: radio. The whole television branch will eventually die, but people keep driving and like the radio stations they know. The good thing is you can have that for 5 % of the current cost

[Escaping Germany in Public @ro_bernhardt]

Imagine Groundhog Day, but with AI. You could learn & create nearly everything since you just refine your prompts one step further each iteration. AI is stuck-in-a-loop scenario flexible

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Can we all agree that it would be nice if AI replaces lawyers?

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“Prove to me that you’re not an AI” is the Inverse Turing Test, now testing humans and not machines

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cynicism is a malady of disappointed idealists

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Cheap, autonomous taxis will kill regional trains

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It’s nice getting better tools, but to fix big problems we actually would need better markets.

Like the labor market, housing, education, health – they are all ridiculously badly functioning as markets with lots of transaction cost friction

[Escaping Germany in Public @ro_bernhardt]

The economy looks increasingly like in the Middle Ages with guilds preserving their privileges through inventing more and more degree / certificate / licence requirements & regulations

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Nord Stream is the elephant in the room why Germany lost its industrial competitiveness so rapidly. Yeah, EU regulations, taxes, climate bs, interest rates etc. are a thing, but losing cheap energy was the most severe in the short term – and NATO “allies” probably did it

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I’ve no fucking clue whether the AfD will fix Germany. But I know the Merz government won’t. This guy has reached the stage of his complete incompetency. A great example of the Peter Principle

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The Silicon Valley – with San Francisco as its center – will this year attract around 60 % of global AI investments. Market & Folsom Street in SF themselves attract more venture capital each than Germany

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Stupid decisions are made because their consequences aren’t felt in the short term

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Professional sports have the only really functional labor market

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The EU recently certainly gives some serious late Eastern Bloc vibes. Feels fragile & completely dysfunctional