Oct 15, 2026, 4:59 PM@kim_harding
We should compare the current operating cost (licenses and instability) to the ditching cost. I'm not even sure it will be a net cost.
And even if it was the case, this money would go into European businesses. Full circle 💪.
Oct 15, 2026, 7:06 PM@Teratogenese @kim_harding That's the thing that gets me. Sure there's a very clear safety and sovereignty incentive (though accelerated under Trump if we're honest it was always there) but the billions upon billions of euros we pay into the US economy instead of our own - how on earth did anyone ever think this was a good idea?
@thisislieven *stares in No Capital Markets Union*
Now take that and apply it to bonds/pension funds/capital markets (you'll never guess which country blocks completion of the CMU so EU investors can stop pouring hundreds of billions into the US and start investing in the EU instead...)