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Unfortunately, my mom died a couple of years ago, so no I don't pay anything :) I believe we have a fundamentally different world view, so I am not sure if it

• jacquesm 5y ago
  If you believe in a meritocracy then you should see the irony in that you are defending a de-facto monopolist and their rent-seeking behavior, which is an abuse of power. The rent seekers are the inheritors of a machine that they themselves did not build (the shareholders of Apple), and who are taking away a good chunk of income of those whose products people wish to use, a sure sign of merit.
• tsimionescu 5y ago
  > Apple put hard, hard work into building an ecosystem of 1.8 bn active devices. I believe they are entitled to reap the benefits and not let any upstart compete with them as they wish. So you don't believe in meritocracy, you believe in perpetually inherited wealth. Meritocracy would mean that, at any point in time, whoever is the best at doing something should rise to the top. Maintaining someone else's advantage because they were the best at some previous point in time actively works against a meritocracy. This is like saying that nobility is a form of meritocracy, as Queen Elizabeth II's great great great grandmother put hard, hard work into building an empire, so she should now entitled to reap the benefits, not let some upstart president of a colony compete with her as they wish.