Penicillin / antibiotics comes to mind. As well as vaccines. “Oh you’re body is being taken over by millions of microscopic organisms? Take this pill and it will go away. Maybe take this shot too so it won’t happen in the first place.”

And of course computers + the internet were a pretty big boom too.

Citizenship as a Service, finally!

I don’t think that’s true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it’s diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the “Five races under one union” (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the “Three Principles of the People” formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It’s foundational to both Chinese republics.

(but if we’re talking about the language, then “Chinese” is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)

And also RIP Ukrainian demographics. It’s great to see Russia hurting, and they deserve their scars, but it’s gonna take a very long time for Ukraine to recover too. They’ll have EU support, but EU’s economy probably isn’t gonna be in great shape either. And you can’t buy babies.

Ericsson did it, so can’t be that much against EU law. Though maybe they can sneak around it by being huge and multinational?

I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.

Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.

Everyone wants this and it’s taking decades…

ok, but what about the selling point for recruitment firms that “you don’t need to pay $190 a month to unlock Sales Navigator Advanced for each of your recruiters”? or is that perhaps a feature, sorting out the weeds who can’t afford the monthly fee?