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Samizdata quote of the day – The EU produces rules, the US produces companies, China produces scale. Europe has spent decades believing that you can regulate prosperity, tax innovation, and distrust entrepreneurship, while Silicon Valley and Shenzhen built the future.
Now, European Commissioner Virkkunen “Spuit11” warns that Europe is dependent on American and Chinese AI for digital security. As if that were a natural disaster. It’s not a natural disaster. It’s policy.
The EU produces rules. The US produces companies. China produces scale. Europe produces commissions that explain why we’re falling behind.
– Roald Schoenmakers
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In 2010 the USA and the EU had approximately the same GDP. In 2025 the US had a 50% higher GDP than the EU. Those are the facts.
However, here is the thing, with AI and robotics this is about to get much, much worse. Because of the hyper regulatory environment of Europe nobody is going to build these technologies there (though Tesla has a big factory in Berlin that I think they will build robots in.) These technologies are going to take over because humans simply can’t compete. So the USA will have this massive growth going on from the huge amounts of value these technologies bring, and Europe will have nothing. The USA will see traditional industries replaced at large scale by these new technologies but be compensated by the huge value they produce. Europe will have what few industries they have replaced too, but will not have the new technologies to compensate the losses.
Europe is going to need the support of either the USA or China to survive. It does not look good. People who live in Europe should be very much thinking how they are going to survive this while they still have a few years to prepare.