| ▲ | egorfine 5 hours ago |
| > You know that EU bureaucrats do what each country want them to do right? I'n not entirely sure about that. The vast majority of entrepreneurs are complaining about unrealistic requirements and inconceivable burdens in Germany. Certainly no one wants any of this. Yet somehow the rules pile up. |
|
| ▲ | hvb2 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You said > In Germany And then > Yet somehow the rules pile up. Which is just German culture as much as food is Italian. If you want rules for everything I'm hard pressed to think of a more regulated country than Germany. And the populace, in general, might scoff at how long things take but absolutely want to understand what the process is... So yeah, you can't have it both ways |
| |
| ▲ | egorfine 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > hard pressed to think of a more regulated country than Germany. Unfortunately the influence of Germany over other EU countries is quite strong in terms of regulations. Absolutely no one wants more regulations, yet they slowly pile up in the whole EU. I live in Poland, where regulations are incomparably more sane than those of Germany, but even here it slowly grows. | | | |
| ▲ | yownie 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >Which is just German culture as much as food is Italian. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250227-is-there-no-such... | |
| ▲ | seec 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | weslleyskah 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is the same as saying that Russians are wild boars who only care about vodka, stupid wars, money and women. Source: Dostoyevsky | | |
| ▲ | seec 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Stereotypes exist for a reason.
It would be stupid to argue that every single Russian is exactly like that. But at the same time you'll find those traits exhibited in a lot of Russians at various levels of seriousness. Being bigoted is also pretending that tribes/cultures do not share patterns and behavior.
Individuals are unique, but they exist as part of a group. When you talk about the group, you necessarily need to make shortcuts and synthesize. I'm pretty sure that when you talk about dogs, you'll attribute specific behaviors to specific races. But now it is not politically correct to think humans are the same, even though it is scientifically provable. |
| |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > The EU was supposed to bring countries together, but I think it did quite the contrary What are some concrete examples of how Europeans countries are now further away from each other, since the start of EU and because of EU? As someone who enjoyed the ability of freely moving across the continent to find a country I'm actually comfortable living in, it's hard for me to imagine EU made countries more distant to each other, but I'm not all-seeing and would love to understand more from another perspective. | |
| ▲ | martin_a 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is possibly the greatest bullshit I've read today. Greetings from Germany! | | |
| ▲ | seec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Very German of you to negate my experience.
But since you are German, I know you are the only worthwhile source of knowledge about everything and anything. Thanks for kindly demonstrating my argument. | |
| ▲ | egorfine 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You should bear in mind that thinking of an IT specialist or a software developer is very much uncommon among population. As developers we tend to think alike worldwide. But walk out the door and ask ten (older) German people whether they would prefer to use government email-like service instead of paper mails, and see what answer comes to the top. | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Read so far* You haven't read all the 280 comments in this submission yet ;) | | |
|
|
|
|
| ▲ | whynotmaybe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's the same in Belgium where it takes weeks to start a business, but as a French said to me some time ago, it's better than in France. |
|
| ▲ | kakacik 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Bureaucracy is a beast with its own life, it doesn't care what regular people want. In fact most folks' requirements go directly against objectives of this beast, since people want it as small and as weak as possible, while beast need to be fed and feels internally it needs to be strong. Anything not related to gaining or maintaining strength is antagonist. |
| |
| ▲ | bombcar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | And even if that's not the case, the group of "entrepreneurs" is so small compared to the voting population at large, that they won't even notice if they crush it entirely into paste. | | |
| ▲ | egorfine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Exactly this. Common folks like "tough on crime" postures of politicians and never consider nuance, which is everything. Yeah, crush them, those white-collared fraudsters. |
|
|
