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The US government is interested in making sure US companies get as big as possible, why would they hamstring them? Do you think they're out there shooting peop
by llampx 3y ago
The US government is interested in making sure US companies get as big as possible, why would they hamstring them?
Do you think they're out there shooting people in the Middle East so that Middle Eastern oil companies can make more money or so that the American ones can?
- acyou 3y agoI think regulation is a little more complicated than that. There is a vast system of interests, but I don't agree that overall incentives are to make US companies get as big as possible. They lose competitiveness at some point. Middle East is not relevant. Github not being part of Microsoft could be better for the overall economy. Consider the development of the World Wide Web. If you consider Github and aspects of Github as a network and communication protocol, it would be better in the long term to decentralize control.
- llampx 3y agoIMO the US government has a big interest in trying to get American companies as big as possible, and to keep them in the US. Or maybe you can point out some things that the government has done (recently) to show the opposite?