USA revolving around several trillion-dollar companies, and EU having hardly any, is supposed to imply economic superiority, but to me it sounds "if you're so good at growing, why don't you have more tumours?"

@kornel Right. I was watching a Sabbatical video, and he's asking someone in Tanzania what kind of jobs and businesses are there, and the local looks at him like he's crazy and says "everything, all kinds" and begins to reel of a list of what basically amounts to a functioning, diversified economy not dominated by marginal-value-added tech companies.

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Lack of diversity kills ecosystems, no matter if they are biological or anything else.

Free markets die when the number of main players get too small.

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