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28 sats \ 7 replies \ @OT 2 May \ on: Stupid Europeans, and their Stupid European Opinions (The Economist, Pignal) econ
How long until the EU breaks up? During Trumps term?
No way, most EU countries are too small to go in alone. The EU isn’t going to break up.
The EU has been on the whole a good thing for the world, allowing many people to live and work in Europe, and collectively build wealth using a common currency. Where bitcoin hits Europe is that it cannot control it. EU really likes its rules and regulations, and free and open source software, especially peer to peer software is fundamentally uncontrollable once released on the Internet. (However, further transport protocol encryption and obfuscation is worth exploring here).
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Not sure about that. Europe made sure that Brits believe that Brexit has been a net negative for them. Many are worse off now than before Brexit. If that's because of Brexit, that's another question, but many people associate their current misery with Brexit. There haven't been more calls for Brexits, as far as I know.
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i dont know, most of the smaller eu countries love milking the subsidies and getting free euros. most have delusions of grandeur about how they will be a strong independent country but in reality, some bigger country will always be fucking them.
eu might just be the better of two evils
Most of those benefits are well in the past.
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Nah, stupid shit can go on for longer than anyone thinks
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