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I saw someone had downvoted you and went to upvote and gave you another downvote by accident, sorry.[1] I think you are entirely correct, state competition and
by drats 15y ago
I saw someone had downvoted you and went to upvote and gave you another downvote by accident, sorry.[1] I think you are entirely correct, state competition and experimentation is a good thing, as is decentralisation. Even if someone disagrees with your points, I don't see the need to downvote them.
I like the idea elsewhere on the thread of standardizing a database to enable the calculation to be readily done by the seller (and those places with systems so complex that they can't be represented with a couple of fields - state, tax level, exceptions - can just lose out).
[1] pg can we please have some more space between the up and down vote buttons for touch screens?
- mkr-hn 15y agoI downvoted because of the inflammatory language.
- IanDrake 15y agoSorry, sometimes my writing style just comes out that way. To make my point differently and maybe to make it more tech specific: I would rather pay individual companies for software I want to run on my PC than to pay Microsoft a lump sum and have them give me a bunch of software they think I need (and then distribute the funds to the creators how they see fit). It could be argued that it would be easier for consumers to pay only Microsoft, saving them the headache of creating relationships with multiple vendors. Or it could be argued that the chaos of the market is worth the competition that ultimately benefits the consumer. I like the bottom up approach because it creates competition and choice.