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> If what comes after is not better, then we waited too long to break this monopoly up. I don't follow your logic, because it does not have any logic. Can you
by chipdart 2y ago
> If what comes after is not better, then we waited too long to break this monopoly up.
I don't follow your logic, because it does not have any logic.
Can you clarify your line of reasoning? I mean, if breaking up a company creates more problems than the ones it solves, what leads you to believe that anticipating the breakup would have any impact whatsoever in the fact that breaking up the company creates more problems than the ones it solves?
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoThe main thing I specifically value about Google being whole is that there is a part of the business that is a firehouse of money, and some sizable % of this money is used in a Patronage system, supporting not the arts but open source technology & standards. This world would be much poorer a place without this open source work & protocols. I struggle to think of how else we would have got this, what action we would have taken to keep this outcom, while not "waiting too long".
- bearjaws 2y ago> I don't follow your logic, because it does not have any logic. You do not follow it because you do not wish to. Think of Google as a cancer. You can ignore it for the rest of your life, and your quality of life may get shittier and shittier until you die. Think of anti-trust like surgery, you may be permanently harmed, lose a limb, skin, organ, etc... but you will be better in the long run. Sometimes surgery has no side effects, sometimes it harms you, we won't know until we are out the other end. In this case, we may have waited so long the cancer might kill the host by removing it. I don't believe that to be the case however.