[mycatisblack]

   Having lived in both systems and currently living in a country that clearly reflects the European mindset, I feel well positioned to compare the two.

Having lived in Turkey, which you feel is heavily influenced by US culture, does not make you well positioned to compare EU and US.

[cheschire]

And the German way of life does not necessarily reflect that of the rest of Europe either.

But that’s not the author’s point.

“The reason I wanted to write this post is to share the idea that there is another way to live.”

[ahofmann]

The author worked in an American company. And the author is also right that reading mostly english content easily leads to more exposure of the american mindset.

[hoseyor]

Not only that, he even explicitly states that he has a mostly online perspective.

It’s a curious phenomenon that I don’t think is nearly appreciated enough that this technocratic, hubristic mindset that is prevalent among people in tech, riding high on some sense of power and high income, is causing major social issues akin to various other aristocratic type mindsets of the past; the figurative princes riding around their hereditary lands with upturned noses at the peasants they abuse that are both the source and base of their en-titled lives.

Then you add on top of that the insult of immigrants trying to lecture indigenous people they are freeloaders on about how they know better who and what they are, and you have a mixture that seems like it could easily end up boiling over for understandable reasons one day, when the resentment is explosively released because containment by the authoritarian ruling class invariably slips.