<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>libertine</author><text>The problem is not the lack of exciting tech companies, but the ability - and interest - to retain them in Europe.&lt;p&gt;Money is cheap in the US, and most of EU countries are quite pleasant to live without obscene amounts of money in the bank (basically thanks to public services), so any good offer it&amp;#x27;s quite convincing.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that EU governments don&amp;#x27;t see tech companies as strategic assets, unlike the US&amp;#x2F;China.&lt;p&gt;So I guess it&amp;#x27;s a mix of culture&amp;#x2F;policies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Guzba</author><text>The growth in tech stocks has been pretty insane imo. It&amp;#x27;s so easy to be afraid though and call this another 2000, but we really don&amp;#x27;t know what the future holds.&lt;p&gt;I wish Europe had it&amp;#x27;s own set of exciting tech companies. That would be amazing. As a human living on this planet, the more things available to me, the better. Unfortunately, Europe doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to do much anymore. Google &amp;quot;European growth stocks&amp;quot;. I want them back in the game.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/us-tech-stocks-are-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-european-stock-market.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drwoland</author><text>The sad thing is, at least in the UK start ups are often headquartered in the US to make it easy to chase valley VCs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Guzba</author><text>The growth in tech stocks has been pretty insane imo. It&amp;#x27;s so easy to be afraid though and call this another 2000, but we really don&amp;#x27;t know what the future holds.&lt;p&gt;I wish Europe had it&amp;#x27;s own set of exciting tech companies. That would be amazing. As a human living on this planet, the more things available to me, the better. Unfortunately, Europe doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to do much anymore. Google &amp;quot;European growth stocks&amp;quot;. I want them back in the game.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/us-tech-stocks-are-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-european-stock-market.html</url></story>