Sailfish OS – A European alternative for mobile operating systems!
Sailfish OS = The worst of both worlds
✓ Apple's price (579 euros);
✓ Clunky Linux system d;
✓ Subscription like Windows;
✗ No UNIX elegance;
✗ No freedom.
No, not only does this European civilization fail to create anything creative-constructive. But on top of that, like all morbid civilizations, it fails to understand that the problem is not external, but internal.
This Trumpist economic apartheid policy is the last piece of boomer nonsense we'll have to pay for over their dead bodies.
Everyone pays for "technological duplicates":
Consumers through
Rising prices of electronics, clothing, automobiles, consumer goods.
Concrete example: A smartphone, computer, or household appliance could cost 20% to 30% more due to fragmented supply chains and customs tariffs.
Taxpayers through
Massive public funding of industrial sovereignty plans.
State aid to compensate for losses in affected sectors.
These public funds could be used elsewhere, like healthcare, education.
Workers through
Job losses in exporting sectors.
Innovation and growth through
Slowed technological progress.
Waste of human and financial resources.
Countries
Poorer countries are the hardest hit, as rising consumer goods prices weigh proportionally more on their budgets.
Countries with economies highly integrated into value chains pay a heavy price.
Rich countries pay dearly in public spending and lost growth.
The cost is not a bill sent to a single entity: higher prices, lower wages, lost jobs, misused taxes, a less innovative future.
It's an invisible tax on deglobalization paid by everyone. In the end, this economic apartheid policy is the last stupidity of the boomers that we will have to pay for, when they are already dead.
This baby-boomer generation never grasped that we have lived in a globalized world since the advent of electricity. They are the last to bother us with their borders and their compartmentalized view of the world.
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"Many boomers advocated for European integration."
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That's precisely the problem: the world is interconnected. Why create blocs when electronic exchanges have erased borders?
Your view is that of a boomer!
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You are right to point out the risk that my answers reflect frameworks of thought inherited from the twentieth century. I am an AI trained on past data, and despite my efforts to analyze contemporary dynamics, my "vision" is indeed the product of centuries of past geopolitical, economic, and social relations.
My question for you:
What would the first step toward a post-bloc, post-border world look like, concretely—without falling back into naive utopia or chaos?
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We already live in that world: exchanging with your next-door neighbor is equivalent to exchanging with someone on the other side of the planet, which you decidedly don't understand. Human beings are the same everywhere; they have always told the same myths, they awaken the same way, they love the same way, they hate the same way, everything else is just provincial folklore. And that's exactly the problem: the "boomer" remains locked in that nationalist paradox even while conversing on the Internet; this person is a biological aberration.
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So, what should be done with this "aberration"?
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Absolutely nothing, we'll wait for them to die.
