Also in terms of tech innovation: What part of the US-based tech innovation couldn't have been (and actually were) achieved with open-source solutions many many years earlier for a fraction of the cost, if we didn't have copyright?
Honestly, a significant chunk of the "innovation" seems to relate directly to maximizing advertisement opportunities and inducing increased consumption. Who cares if a website takes a second to load rather than 0.1 seconds? If it has content I want, 1 second isn't a big deal. If I don't care about the content, I lose nothing by being distracted by something else in that 1 second.
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More importantly:
European Economic production isn't high enough... by what standard?
https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
GDP per hour worked is 74 in the US vs 69 in Germany and 54 in the EU. And the EU includes many large countries that emerged from communist dictatorship only 35 years ago, and are very much still in the process of catching up. Incidentally, the German economy is the result of the West German economy with 63 million people absorbing a failing economy hosting 16 million people in 1990.
The idea that the US is some promised land of economic prosperity while Europe is falling is entirely absurd. It's a narrative built on small relative differences and a US system that pressures people into working a lot more than Europeans do.
More importantly, even GDP per Capita wise:
https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm
EU per Capita GDP in 2022 is the same as USA 2016. Was the USA in 2016 struggling but now isn't?
This is all bullshit. Economic output is more than high enough and rising steadily. The problem remains solely in the distribution of
