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Wait, so if a computer saves me 4 hours a day in efficiency, but could have saved me 4 hours 10 minutes with better design, the person who gave it to me is inde
by qq66 16y ago
Wait, so if a computer saves me 4 hours a day in efficiency, but could have saved me 4 hours 10 minutes with better design, the person who gave it to me is indebted to me for those 10 minutes?
- celoyd 16y agoThis is why my second premise is important. The person who sold it to you and unfairly prevented others from selling you a better one does, arguably, owe you something. I’m not saying Gates owes us all a perfect operating system. But by doing a worse job than he could and distorting the market (if you agree to both of those), he screwed up.
- qq66 16y agoYour argument seems to imply that if someone does design a perfect operating system, it's OK to distort the market to make it successful.
- bluedanieru 16y agoWell, if there is a perfect operating system out there and some inefficiency in the market is preventing it from being widely adopted, then yeah it's hard to argue against distorting the market to make it successful. The market is a tool, after all, not an end in itself.