Europe's five stages of coping with US innovation — plus regulatory fines as step 7
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-16
A viral French post satirizes Europe's five stages of coping with American innovation: contempt ("useless, we'll laugh about it in a few years"), denial ("they'll lose a fortune on tech with no market"), fear ("we must regulate heavily"), and panic ("we need a hundreds-of-billions Marshall plan or we'll depend on China and the US"). Rob Leclerc added step 7: "find ways to add regulatory fines to extract more revenue from the innovation."
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