"Neither ox nor donkey can stop socialism in its tracks," Erich Honecker once proclaimed. If the old donkey had used the word progress instead of "socialism," it would be a pun today. And so the mobility services of Uber, Lyft and the others will sooner or later find their way into Europe. And unfortunately it will once again be the entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley California for their services. Just as Google, Facebook, Apple, Disney, Netflix, Microsoft, Comcast and Kongregate pakistan rcs data are already diverting billions upon billions of the advertising and gaming money that once remained in the domestic economy there.
Instead of reacting with laws of restriction and censorship - as Erich Honecker and his Stasi tried to do in the GDR and which led to their downfall - a Europe-wide digital offensive would be the only remaining option to prevent us from becoming a continent of the backward-looking. And this could be financed through a digital sales tax on all sales generated by the big players in these areas. It would be easy to decide on this ... if it weren't for the many lobbyists of the digital corporations who have long since clouded the minds of the decision-makers.
And so some will grow – and others will shrink and complain.