> Google removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct<p>If Google is the problem afflicting society than we can smile because in all probability we all died and went to heaven. /s<p>At the end of the day people want an improvement in their quality of life and on a relatively short timeframe.<p>People can't wait for the biblical times of beurocracy to get it perfect, they are more than happy with the good enough.<p>They get a taste of that "good enough" and if it's really good enough they become repeat customers/users. Much like it happened with Microsoft,Google, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube...<p>And it's happening right now with Xiaomi, Huawei etc.<p>Startups will always prevail on EU Parliament (or any other Parliament for that matter) because they are comfortable operating at the unknown frontier, whereas Parliament need to have a clear and detailed map before they even think about venturing there.<p>The only peril that startups have is venturing into cult and fraud, young people are tempted to follow the dark path of Theranos, WeWork (and also another company I won't mention because I don't want to start a flame war) whereas they should aim to be more like Microsoft . Microsoft never needed outside money, always had 1+ year of cash in the bank and always implored analysts and investment bankers to be ultra-conservative with their estimates