Lie, as the
bank clerk Nausėda did, that you will create a welfare state in Lithuania, the
same as those of us who emigrated to the West live in. Lie, because you know
very well that nothing will happen. Without modern technologies, there will be
no prosperity. And modern technologies will never exist in Lithuania. There is
only a vibrant startup scene in Lithuania. We benefit from them like from cockroaches
in an abandoned apartment. They eat, share money, but have nothing to do with
modern technologies. This is not OpenAI and not DeepSeek. We are silent about
it, we allow Nausėda to deceive the villagers. The Poles discuss it openly.
“Europe is systematically unable to
technologically compete with US and Chinese companies. And it is difficult to
expect that this will change, given the political and economic model in force
in the Old Continent.
My editorial colleague and
editor-in-chief of Rzeczpospolita, Michał Szułdrzyński, presented in his
commentary the dilemma of Polish development: chips or raspberry exports, that
is, advanced technologies, innovations using the IQ, or the production of
agricultural products, at best, in a simple form.
Unfortunately, editor Szułdrzyński is
wrong; there is no such dilemma. The choice has already been made. Poland has
no chance of competing with the world in the field of technology, we only need
advanced Nvidia chips to the extent that they can be used as saucers for tomato
seedlings.
Why is Europe not competitive in the
field of IT and artificial intelligence (AI)?
Where does such a belief come from?
Well, just look at the international indices illustrating the realities of the
world of technology and innovation. We are an innovative dwarf, and our position
is constantly declining. This is the effect. And the cause?
Firstly, Poland, like most European
countries, with its progressive social agenda and dying demographics, will
never create a sufficiently competitive system that would pose a real threat to
the real, most predatory, ecosystems of the digital economy (the USA, East
Asia). On the one hand, it is about the scale of investment opportunities, and
on the other, about the remuneration offered to industry leaders. And I do not
mean European Musks, Bezos or Cooks (we also have a lot of billionaires stuffed
into our countries to the point of unconsciousness), but salary solutions at
all levels of production. Europe is simply too oppressive from a fiscal point
of view.
Another problem is the scale of
companies: the leaders of IT, including artificial intelligence, are large
companies, not states. States can support, help, create an appropriate legal
environment, but the leaders of development are companies. There are almost no
new economy companies of this scale in Europe. There is not a single company in
Poland with a capitalization of at least a hundredth of that of Alibaba,
Tencent, Microsoft, Alphabet or Meta. So what are we talking about? Even if an
individual innovative talent emerges in Poland, it is immediately sucked into a
system dominated by giants.
Can Polish politicians help AI
technology?
And most importantly: in our reality,
there are no politicians who would dare to support the process of creating
private, I emphasize private!, technology companies that would be able to take
up the gauntlet of competition with the world. To this end, changes are
envisaged, such as full tax breaks for companies investing in development,
individual tax and contribution regimes, companies training specialists from
abroad, billions of euros in state capital support (a scale needs to be
created), launch mechanisms for research and development, fast-track visas for
skilled migrants, etc. Please show me politicians (apart from a few
insignificant screamers from the Confederation) who would agree to this. They
will not agree, because it would abolish the already inefficient and equally
ruthless fiscal and social systems.
Therefore, Europe has no chance of
catching up with the world. Its open-air conversion process has gone too far. So
what could it be? Like an open-air museum; offering tourism, poor academic
education (here we still have an advantage over part of the world for a while)
and organic agricultural products. Poland can be a producer of vodka, sausages
and raspberries. Assuming, of course, that there are enough hands to work the
latter set.
This bus has left, ladies and
gentlemen, and the illusion that you can get on it is simply naive."
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