What Pieter Levels thinks about Europe
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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17 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsdon't make the same mistakes Western Europe did and you will soon be the richest, safest, most modern country in Europe and hopefully then have the power to be the new leader of Europe
↗Poland is booming and shouldn't make the same mistakes Western Europe didlevels.io
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsSouth Brazil is nothing like what you think when you think of Brazil It's the safest place in Brazil, it's rich and feels a lot like Europe
- 9 days earlier
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Their wordsWe should follow what the data says Europe should only be open for people from countries where we have data that previous people from those countries had a net contribution to our society, the economy and stayed out of crime
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsIt shows Europe can still do stuff if they just all get on the same page
- 3 days earlier
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Our readingCity states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working, and regulatory conditions.
Their wordsThis is great and another example of city states attracting all the skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions!
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsYou can see the effect clearly within the EU: Countries with low regulatory burden like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than places like Spain or Hungary where its regulatory burden is high
↗It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burdenlevels.io
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsBecause police doesn't let you file a report anymore for basic crime and people know police won't solve crime so they don't even try to file a police report
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Their wordsOne of the reasons crime numbers are going down in many places around the world and especially in Europe is that police simply won't let you report crimes anymore
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Their wordsIt's clear that the big European cities are getting less safe and more run down when you visit them but you wouldn't see that from the decreasing crime statistics they publish
- 8 days earlier
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Their wordsI think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy: - We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates You're from Japan? Just fly here and you can stay forever - We should then almost completely ban any inflow from countries whose previous immigrants have shown high crime rates with instant deportations
- 12 days earlier
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Their wordsPortugal's choice is cultural though and completely fits the general spirit in Europe which is fully anti-tech, anti-AI, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-business and anti-progress
↗Portugal could have been the Silicon Valley of Europelevels.io
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsEuropean governments and thus the EU too is losing lots of tax income from Europeans fleeing Next on the agenda is the European Exit Tax and after that I think they will try to add Worldwide Income Tax (like the US already has) meaning it doesn't matter where you live in the world as a European citizen, the EU will tax you for your entire income!
↗I think the EU will try to add Worldwide Income Tax after the European Exit Taxlevels.io
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Their wordsI think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back
- 5 weeks earlier
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self-driving carselectric vehicles
Their wordsThe French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
↗The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industrylevels.io
- 23 months earlier
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Their wordsYou have a meeting with three people and then you get these compromise results, which is very European. I don’t know if they call it polder model where you put people in the room and you only let them out when they agree on the compromise in politics. And I think it breeds averageness.
↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 23rd of 30 in this recording
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Their wordsYou need a space to congregate, man. And I found history on this. So 400 years ago in the coffee houses of Europe, the scientific revolution, the enlightenment happened.
↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 28th of 30 in this recording
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Their wordsSo actually, regulation is very good for big companies because they can follow it. I can’t follow it, right? If I want to start an AI startup in Europe now, I cannot because there’s an AI regulation that makes it very complicated for me.
↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 29th of 30 in this recording