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It’s a short term paradise. You’re not going to be able to keep it that way when the rest of the world is more technologically advanced and you slip into povert
by dyauspitr 2y ago
It’s a short term paradise. You’re not going to be able to keep it that way when the rest of the world is more technologically advanced and you slip into poverty.
- ripped_britches 2y agoExactly my thought here. Such a privileged view of the world to not appreciate the luxuries that internet technologies have bestowed us.
- hughesjj 2y agoIt's also naive in that they somehow think they wouldn't get invaded the second some dictator decides they want some lebensraum. You can't have an entire continent (save Poland, Finland, Britain, France, and a handful of others) more or less ignore defense (via technological advancement) and hope to keep pax liberalism
- tivert 2y ago> It’s a short term paradise. You’re not going to be able to keep it that way when the rest of the world is more technologically advanced and you slip into poverty. I think you're failing to make important distinctions. Being "less advanced" in algorithmic addiction machines, ad targeting, personal privacy invasion, or monopoly is not going to cause any of those things. As an American, a good chunk of American consumer technology is more akin to a parasitic burden than any advantage.
- arp242 2y agoThings like Facebook, Meta, Uber and whatnot are not really innovative technology. Almost none of the tech the DMA regulates is innovative as such, other than some "innovation" to deal with the scaling, and the only reason they need to scale is due to the dubious business activities that allowed them to grow to this size. The DMA is really about regulating basic common sense free market rules, not regulating technology as such.