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This is a free market. One company can pay another company to set a default. I remember last year this was full of blockchain bros and so an. What hapend to

This is a free market. One company can pay another company to set a default. I remember last year this was full of blockchain bros and so an. What hapend to the free the people from the gov people here?

zirgs 3y ago
It's scary that the amount of money that they pay is bigger than the whole annual budget of my country. You can run a whole country of 2M of people with the money that google pays to apple just for making their search engine the default one. How do you regulate a corporation that's bigger than the government?
- anon23432343 3y ago
  "The free market will regulate itself"
  - vincnetas 3y ago
    Yes, but not to the advantage of the weakest participants.
    - anon23432343 3y ago
      "The Free Market" does not have this concept. Libertarians don't have this concept. Right wing is the opposite they love to attack the weakest. The hustle culture only thinks about money. The Blockchain boys only think about money. Who has time for the weak? Not the free market.
      - zirgs 3y ago
        Well in this case many governments are weaker participants than big corporations.
  - zirgs 3y ago
    It's scary that someone somewhere at google can decide what to do with larger amounts of money than many governments of sovereign countries. Who exactly decided to pay 19B to apple? What is their decision making process? Do they vote on it or what?
williamdclt 3y ago
Who's free here? The corporations maybe, certainly not the people. Being under the control of giant corporations isn't much more desireable than being under the control of government. The "free market = free people" argument breaks down quickly when companies become so big
- anon23432343 3y ago
  The market is free! Who is talking about people? The market does whats best for the market. Nobody is talking about the people.
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- matthewfelgate 3y ago
  What's stopping you using Bing?
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  The corporations aren't free either, not when the biggest one can throw money around to suppress any competition.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
"what hapend" is that the corporations took the piss and created monopolies, suppressing the free market. It's up to goverment intervention to ensure a fair and level playing field, so that in this case new search engines can get a chance and improve / innovate. I don't know if you've noticed, but Google's search results have regressed sharply in the past few years, but they get away with it because the competition is literally priced out of the market, or in the case of Apple, bought off. That is, there was rumours that Apple was developing their own search engine, but $18 billion a year (presumably) is a compelling argument to not do so.
lopis 3y ago
Corporations are not people. Google and Apple have more power than several countries and their monopolies mean people have less and worse choice. The free market is a myth.
carlosjobim 3y ago
> What hapend to the free the people from the gov people here? Economic crisis happened. Everybody is free market enthusiast during bullish times, and runs crying to the nanny government when the bear shows up.

zirgs 3y ago

It's scary that the amount of money that they pay is bigger than the whole annual budget of my country. You can run a whole country of 2M of people with the money that google pays to apple just for making their search engine the default one. How do you regulate a corporation that's bigger than the government?

anon23432343 3y ago
"The free market will regulate itself"
- vincnetas 3y ago
  Yes, but not to the advantage of the weakest participants.
  - anon23432343 3y ago
    "The Free Market" does not have this concept. Libertarians don't have this concept. Right wing is the opposite they love to attack the weakest. The hustle culture only thinks about money. The Blockchain boys only think about money. Who has time for the weak? Not the free market.
    - zirgs 3y ago
      Well in this case many governments are weaker participants than big corporations.
- zirgs 3y ago
  It's scary that someone somewhere at google can decide what to do with larger amounts of money than many governments of sovereign countries. Who exactly decided to pay 19B to apple? What is their decision making process? Do they vote on it or what?

williamdclt 3y ago

Who's free here? The corporations maybe, certainly not the people. Being under the control of giant corporations isn't much more desireable than being under the control of government. The "free market = free people" argument breaks down quickly when companies become so big

anon23432343 3y ago
The market is free! Who is talking about people? The market does whats best for the market. Nobody is talking about the people.
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matthewfelgate 3y ago
What's stopping you using Bing?
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
The corporations aren't free either, not when the biggest one can throw money around to suppress any competition.

Cthulhu_ 3y ago

"what hapend" is that the corporations took the piss and created monopolies, suppressing the free market. It's up to goverment intervention to ensure a fair and level playing field, so that in this case new search engines can get a chance and improve / innovate. I don't know if you've noticed, but Google's search results have regressed sharply in the past few years, but they get away with it because the competition is literally priced out of the market, or in the case of Apple, bought off. That is, there was rumours that Apple was developing their own search engine, but $18 billion a year (presumably) is a compelling argument to not do so.

lopis 3y ago

Corporations are not people. Google and Apple have more power than several countries and their monopolies mean people have less and worse choice. The free market is a myth.

carlosjobim 3y ago

> What hapend to the free the people from the gov people here? Economic crisis happened. Everybody is free market enthusiast during bullish times, and runs crying to the nanny government when the bear shows up.