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It will be fun to see how tech companies will react when they get to taste their own “my platform my rules” medicine.
by emsy 5y ago
It will be fun to see how tech companies will react when they get to taste their own “my platform my rules” medicine.
- giorgioz 5y agoah wow this is a brilliant sentence! I never saw governments as platforms but they DO ARE! In fact I was always critizing Apple App Store 30% by saying: "What is the App Store a government that can charge me a 30% tax?" and in fact my fear is the reconstruction of a DIGITAL FEUDAL SYSTEM. Where there is a King that charge a tax and then there is smaller and smaller nesting of feudal lords that charge other taxes. KING US Government charging 20-45% income tax DUKE Apple charging 30% App Store tax DUKE Google charging 30% Google Play Store tax DUKE Microsoft charging X% Microsoft Store tax MARQUEES Spotify/Netflix/Airbnb charging a fee for their platform I think we need to be careful to not smother the fire of innovation which brings social mobility across classes/income groups. If we allow Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook to suffocate the innovation coming from the smaller companies we might find ourselves into a new medieval/dark age period with a lot of zero sum games and hierarchy and little innovation.
- blue1 5y ago*Marquis
- giorgioz 5y agoBoth Marquess and Marquis are correct so I guess I merged them into Marquees XD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess In Italian, which is my native language, it would be MARCHESE. Fun fact, there is a whole Italian region called Marche: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marche
- skywal_l 5y agoYep, that's where the term 'Marquis' comes from. He's the one supposed to guard the 'marche' (stair in french) which in latin used to mean frontier.
- blue1 5y agoFurther fun fact, still in Italy, the territory around the city of Treviso is called La Marca since medieval times (and still today): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Treviso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Treviso <MARQUEE>, instead, is an ancient HTML abomination.
- dgb23 5y agoThe economist Yanis Varoufakis elaborates on this. I think he makes a good and important point, and is incredibly smart and knowledgeable. But I also think this view of economy and corporations is too total. In the end these things are symptoms.
- zajio1am 5y ago> KING US Government charging 20-45% income tax > DUKE Apple charging 30% App Store tax Note that Income tax is in reality earnings tax (as expenditures are generally subtracted), while Apple/Google fee is based on just income.
- lowbloodsugar 5y agoSeems like you are arguing that Apple should be able to choose which government it wants to run under when using the France platform.