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> Someone actually has to incentivize building things and getting shit done America will incentivize actual monopolies to massacre their employees before admit
by smoldesu 3y ago
> Someone actually has to incentivize building things and getting shit done
America will incentivize actual monopolies to massacre their employees before admitting they're wrong and need to stop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
Say what you will about the free market, but assuming that businesses will always make the right decision is a good way of ensuring your food is rotten and your warranties go un-honored. Or worse.
- xvector 3y agoYou can theorize all you want given a strike in 1892, but in the last 20 years demonstrate this is not the case. Hundreds of disruptive startups have emerged and become successful. Now compare this same ones to the EU.
- smoldesu 3y ago> You can theorize all you want given a strike in 1892, but in the last 20 years demonstrate this is not the case. The last 20 years demonstrate that America will charge it's largest domestic tech business with a breakup over just their stance on third-party browsers. There's not much left to the imagination. > Hundreds of disruptive startups have emerged and become successful. Now compare this same ones to the EU. Like ARM and STMicroelectronics? Once you look past the West-coast hype machines, there's quite a few European businesses that haven't been challenged by American competitors, startup or otherwise. Some of them are even considered critical components of American businesses, if you could believe that.