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Legislating costly support for a free and accessible service is how that service stops being free and accessible.
by vovavili 4mo ago
Legislating costly support for a free and accessible service is how that service stops being free and accessible.
- lurkerforawhile 4mo agothey have four trillion dollars buddy they'll be okay.
- vovavili 4mo agoThese are exactly the kind of companies that have enough data and analysis to avoid bleeding money.
- lurkerforawhile 4mo agoso externalizing environmental and social costs is fine, as long as the numbers are big enough?
- vovavili 4mo agoI am not sure how any of this follows.
- stackskipton 4mo agoThey became big enough because they were free and had massive cash behind them to destroy all competition (Mapquest, Garmin and others) Now they are this big, they have become quasi public record for many other organizations who rely on this data. Since they want to keep costs low, if their data is wrong, it can have significant impacts on your life and getting someone to correct it is almost impossible.
- vovavili 4mo agoAnd that's why you want to start paying for GMaps?
- stackskipton 4mo agoWant to, not really. Want GMaps moved from Google? Yes. If it can stand on it's own free, fine whatever. If not and people need to be charged for it, fine.
- lotsofpulp 4mo agoThe price of the most recent transaction of a share times the number of outstanding shares is not equal to spendable cash.
- rcbdev 4mo agoYou need to legislate effectively. This is something U.S.-Americans often do not (want to) understand. The misconception often is that just because their legislative efforts are an ineffective, lobby-ridden crapshoot, that the free market is automatically the best answer to everything. You can affect really good and positive change through lawmaking, the entire point of it is to regulate and intervene when the wellbeing of the populous and fair competition is in jeopardy.
- the_other 4mo ago[dead]
- inigyou 4mo agoIf you can't afford to run the service without shitting all over everyone, then you can't afford to run the service. Same argument for the living wage.