11 ms·
Its difficult to understand if you haven't lived it. I did,thankfully for a short time before I escaped. So let me try to explain. Facebook had to incorporate s
by beachgeek 15y ago
Its difficult to understand if you haven't lived it. I did,thankfully for a short time before I escaped. So let me try to explain. Facebook had to incorporate so they could pay taxes etc and be "legal". This is a LICENSE to operate. OK.
But lets say some govmint wizard decided that the US economy needed only one social networking company. Back in 2004 that would be myspace. So Mark Z would have applied for a license to become the next social networking company, would have waited 10 years to get it, wouldn't have gotten it, and would've eventually leaped off the Golden gate bridge.
That's what socialism is. What the tea-partiers are calling socialism is nowhere near what real, oppressive, mind-bending, government control is.
There is no more "License Raj" in India. But its still quite crazy, not that different.
- ashishgandhi 15y agoA little bit OT: How did you escape?
- beachgeek 15y agoMSCS+H1=Green Card = Mukti. I am actually more hopeful and bullish about India today than my cynical posts might seem to indicate.