I mean Adam Smith even said you have to prevent monopolies and tax land.

I wonder what New York would have been if Henry George had become mayor back then

To be fair, this is a result of the lack of competition or the formation of trusts, hence why we had anti trust laws

I like this, but how do you avoid people making bad decisions because they think it will benefit society but then it makes things worse? Like the kind of questions experts are better suited to know. For example rent control is repeatedly proven to be a bad policy, but people tend to think its good cause logic shows that “prices high, lets make them less directly”. Experts would maybe look at the underlying causes of prevention of construction, height restrictions, land speculation, and expansions of credit supply as a cause of housing unaffordability.

What to do then?

Solution anonymous leaders? Or leaders as groups/institutions rather than individuals.

You can’t watch tv or film on Zen cause it doesn’t have license for that

I just wish that the narrative would focus more on the anti-competitive behavior of these firms to make sure we don’t fall into the same monopolistic trap in Europe. We need variety, we need competition. Focus on standards, low switching costs, and allow reverse engineering.

Are you sure it benefits him to say that? I think its not even a left vs right issue to recognize this is an issue. At least it sparks discussion and makes people criticize him.

Don’t you think it has some privacy concerns? And how does it affect small businesses relying on cash? I’m asking genuinely, these are intuitive and not well thought out concerns.

I think it still supports Google. If someone wants a Pixel and one less is available second hand, thats one more person buying it in store. Probably not 1:1 relationship there, but still.

Hmm, in mean time I prefer buying Fairphone over supporting Google.

I see, and it can’t be installed on Fairphone?

So if I were to choose graphene over eOS it would mainly be to be more protected from malware?

But here we are talking about the guys being paid to do something immoral.

Thanks for sharing. For someone who is not so well versed in these technicalities, what does that mean for the user? That you’re more susceptible to fraud and hacking and malware?

Valid point, but isn’t having moral principles part of what constitutes not being dumb? Or having the knowledge to understand it as immoral?

Fred

What maskes you want Graphene over e/OS? I’m not so familiar with how they feel.

One of the many good cases for land value taxes