GPU Prices Have Stopped Climbing, But the Market Is Still Broken

[rmcrys]

Big companies are required for big ventures. No mom and pop outfit is going to build reusable space rockets or multi-trillion parameter AI models, nor will they develop a cure for cancer. As for "big armies", the first thing all Europe did when it felt threatened by Russia was scream for US military aid.


Which explains why smart entrepreneurs with good ideas leave Europe to start their business in the US ... and why the US economy has, in the last 20 years, grown at several times the rate of the EU.


On the contrary, the EU has repeatedly used lawfare to extract tens of billions of dollars from successful American firms, to try to give their flailing European competitors an advantage. But it doesn't work. You can put lipstick on a socialist pig, but it's still going to wallow in the mire.

Translating what you said:

- US companies (being the heads from whichever country) are stronger than the European, because most play unfair and think they can act all over the world, as they act in the US. Wrong. The European / Asian have (fortunately) a different way of thinking of living than the US and the US companies are NOT entitled to evade taxes in Europe, nor steal our data and privacy. That's why the EU enforces the law.

- the US is so "cool" that, in the last decade many dozens of thousands of Americans have been emigrating to Europe and Asia, like mouses jumping from a sinking boat... Just in my country there are a lot them, totally burned out from the US "coolness" and capitalist.

- a mess of a "rich" and "cool" country that has a HUGE debt, a retar...d president and can't provide a decent healthcare for all their population. At least in Europe, ALL the population has their rights and healthcare, jobless help, help for newly parents etc.

We may not have so many cheating companies or so huge debt, but we definitely live much better. I'm proud of living in Europe.

 

[Endymio]

US companies (being the heads from whichever country) are stronger than the European, because most play unfair

When you define "unfair" as being more efficient and faster to market with better products: sure.

...and think they can act all over the world, as they act in the US. Wrong. ... That's why the EU enforces the law.

Yes, the EU is currently investigating Facebook for failing to use an age verification system that does not yet exist. And earlier, Microsoft for "unfairly competing" in a market segment that didn't exist until the EU defined it specifically for their anti-MS investigation. Such American lawlessness!

...the US is so "cool" that, in the last decade many dozens of thousands of Americans have been emigrating to Europe and Asia.

Oops! You forgot why that started in the last decade. Thanks to remote work, a US worker can still receive their large US salary while, thanks to those depressed overseas economies, they live like kings. I have a friend doing this now in Europe ... he has a cook and housemaid, working for a pittance.

However, these workers still keeping their US citizenship. For true immigration, the US is still the largest recipient in the world, with the backlog of applicants waiting to emigrate here stretching to several years long.

 

[rmcrys]

When you define "unfair" as being more efficient and faster to market with better products: sure.


Yes, the EU is currently investigating Facebook for failing to use an age verification system that does not yet exist. And earlier, Microsoft for "unfairly competing" in a market segment that didn't exist until the EU defined it specifically for their anti-MS investigation. Such American lawlessness!


Oops! You forgot why that started in the last decade. Thanks to remote work, a US worker can still receive their large US salary while, thanks to those depressed overseas economies, they live like kings. I have a friend doing this now in Europe ... he has a cook and housemaid, working for a pittance.

However, these workers still keeping their US citizenship. For true immigration, the US is still the largest recipient in the world, with the backlog of applicants waiting to emigrate here stretching to several years long.

So basically you admit the US companies and citizens just enjoy the freedom in the EU to come here to live all year long, while Europeans in the US hardly enjoy the same benefits. Also the US companies, enjoying some Monopoly (not true, if the European politicians were not allowed to have money out stocks in US companies, they wouldn't allow governments to depend on US software) try to monopolize the world: Intel and Microsoft and Meta as an example.

Either way, you're right: the European politicians are the most guilty allowing uneven situations US - EU

 

[Endymio]

So basically you admit the US companies and citizens just enjoy the freedom in the EU to come here to live all year long, while Europeans in the US hardly enjoy the same benefits.

It's not "freedom" they're coming for. It's the strength of the US dollar vs the depressed economies there, which allows them to live like kings overseas. They're not permanent emigres.

...if the European politicians were not allowed to have money out stocks in US companies, they wouldn't allow governments to depend on US software)

I realize it's fun to allege bribery, but even the most rudimentary logic shows how absurd your statement is. If a politician wished to do this, they'd make a far larger profit (with far less scrutiny) by investing in some smaller European firm, then mandating their software.

 

[ZedRM]

The used market is equally obnoxious and full of seller being dunces.