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I think it's complicated. On the one hand, protectionism results in duplicated companies, duplicated effort. On the other hand (as is the case with the tarrifs
by RugnirViking 3y ago
I think it's complicated. On the one hand, protectionism results in duplicated companies, duplicated effort.
On the other hand (as is the case with the tarrifs between US and europe car industries) it results in multiple large competitors which sometimes results in a healthy market. The world and health of the economy would imo be much better if we had 6 or 7 competing mobile operating systems, or chip manufacturers, etc.
- varelse 3y ago[dead]
- gonzo41 3y agoDuplicated effort means dignified jobs for the middle class to provide for their families. If you globalize everything and have a super efficient atomized machine then there's a lot of people who've been 'liberated' from their jobs who then get crappy jobs with no benefits like driving ubers sporadically. We don't have a world government that has a social contract to provide for all. Rather we have nations that sometimes provide for their citizens. And then theirs multinationals which sort of float above it causing mayhem for the plebs. But to the original point, if you want cheap EV's you could build them smaller with less features and not try out out compete a F150.
- jowea 3y agoOnly if those were interoperable. Having two major mobile operating systems already requires app developers to think about two apps, or platforms that work on both apps, or limit themselves to the web. If we had 6 OSes and chip manufacturers wouldn't we end up with a much worse version of "developing for Linux is too hard because each distro does it their own way"?