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ah 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 i
by giorgioz 5y ago
ah 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.