alt Hacker News>As a European, the way I see it, Europe declared fealty to the US and relinquished its sovereignty a long time ago, sadly.
No such declaration was ever made. Europe has just failed to compete.
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Facts, but the Europeans, tankies, and America haters here will never admit it. Europe sold out its industries for social programs. Not our fault you guys chose social safety nets over industry.
EU didn't fail because it never even tried.
Nobody in EU ever tried to build a domestic CPU that was even remotely comparable to what Intel and AMD, for them to have had the opportunity to fail.(No, ARM is IP not a builder)
Nobody in EU ever tried to build a domestic GPU that was even remotely comparable to Nvidia, ATI or 3Dfx for them to have failed.
We just let the US companies fight it out, see who could build the best products, and become forever customers to them and then 20 year later wonder how come their economy grew 2x as much.
> No such declaration was ever made
Of course not, there's no need for a 'declaration' that would be a hard sell to the European public. Actions is all that matters.