Well said on the site of Y-Combinator. A US company ran by Americans that mostly funds startups in the US. Clearly the US, the home of Apple, nVidia, Anthropic, Open AI, SpaceX, Google, Meta, Amazon, Tesla etc. is sinking while the EU the home of (? ... well, there is ASML) is going to be running the world.

Linus works on Linux from ... Portland, Oregon. And oh, look at where Linux contributions are coming from:

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributo...

EU's GDP is so catching up with the US:

https://econofact.org/factbrief/fact-check-has-the-economic-...

NOT

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x3ro an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes exactly, just like the.. uhm.. the British Empire could not have possibly declined? Your point is that, because the U.S. has big companies and wealth, it can't be a sinking ship? Because to me this seems like a straw-man.

What I'm saying is that the U.S. is currently in decline, and many will agree with me. Where this leads your (I'm assuming) country, nobody knows. But to me, it doesn't look great.

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YZF 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'm not American. But I guess I feel part of the US led western world order.

The US has big companies and wealth because it has the right ecosystem to create those.

The US is in decline is a meme. Decline can't be measured over short intervals. Maybe it is maybe it isn't. We'll see in 5 decades.

One thing I'm pretty sure about is that this decline of the US that many seem to be excited for and wishing here, if or when it happens, is not going to end well for most of those people. Another way of saying this is that most of the people commenting here have benefited and still benefit from the dominance of the US and the technology and innovation coming out of it, including Y Combinator. What is the long term strategic thinking behind "let's attack the US and make it fail" -> the answer is none. It should be in the interest of most of us to see more US success. We whine as everything around us is an outcome of that success.

Warren Buffet's "Never bet against America" still very much holds in my opinion.

	▲	dfdsjsdklfjs 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm not American. But I guess I feel part of the US led western world order. Thanks to the diligent efforts of Hollywood. > The US has big companies and wealth because it has the right ecosystem to create those. It also has giant homeless camps stretching on for miles, abandoned and collapsing old houses, factories, etc as far as the eye can see. The so-called "wealth" of this country is highly concentrated and is so far beyond the reach of most people we might as well be living in a different country. As we speak we are headed to a giant market collapse as the last dollars are shaken out of everyone's pocket and we head into a hard Depression. This will be followed by a World War. The outcome of that one will be much different than the last one. > The US is in decline is a meme. Wrong. There is point in reading your ignorant post any further. The United States is in fact in decline, and has been for decades. It is the end of the American Empire. Source: I am an actual American, who has eyes and ears and most importantly, has a deep understanding of history, both ancient and "modern." This ship is sinking. > It should be in the interest of most of us to see more US success. Nope. It isn't. If it were, then it would not be failing. Think about it.

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peyton an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It is admittedly pretty goofy to get exactly what you want—an army of people making rules for everything under the sun—and come on here and complain about what we’re doing.

Even TFA, which is about yet another rule, has a goofy quote from the Minister of something or other about breaking free from American tools. Linux seems pretty American to me [1]. Maybe they’ll fork. Would be cool.

[1]: https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributo...