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by nickpp 3y ago
Of course. They're not around anymore though, so...
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I miss spending time in the evenings as a child with my grandparents at candle light, before electricity got brought to their remote village. They told us stories, we watched the flame flicker and we sang. It was a simpler, smaller world. B
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I thought it was the direct result of millions of entrepreneurs and businesses willing to put up with onerous regulation to still offer me all those goods and services I enjoy. By definition regulation adds restrictions and obligations maki
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They're connected, of course: regulation favours incumbents, big players who can afford the cost and headache of compliance. Small players and startups are slowly pushed out, they never grow to become strong, competition thins out and
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> Financial markets There is only one of those in my whole country. Not much competition there if I'd ever want to do an IPO.
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> bazaars Here in Eastern Europe we are having fewer and fewer of those during the last 30 years. My favorite cheese maker closed her small shop and started selling direct from home since local authorities started demanding test and work
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I wonder if there was ever any instance when regulating something has brought in more of that thing. Anybody has an example?
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Very much rooting for Argentina's Milei to provide a similar lesson in modern times but I am afraid that he has very few allies helping him (besides his own idiosyncrasies) and the current laptop class would simply ignore it as they ig
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USA was quite the “intellectual pirate” before that though: https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
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> Who's that? The great majority of people living today. We currently have the historically lowest percentage of people living in poverty ever. Check out the statistics. Of course it’s not 100% but it’s never been better.
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Unencumbered free markets. Same system that got us the unimaginable (just a few generations ago) wealth we live in right now.
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Patents. The classical government-granted monopoly. Incidentally the only type of undefeatable monopoly. Created with the best intentions, of course: to “encourage innovation”.
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Have you read the post I was replying to? It was a classic anti-tech Luddite statement.
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I am sure some aristocrats somewhere are pissed off that we’re not all listening to Bach and reading Kant for our entertainment, but that does not make TV a net negative. It just shows once again that we (as a society) should never give pow
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Every time I get in the car, the left&right side mirrors change their position with a few extra mm to the outside. The heads-up display loses its saved position every few trips. Profile management is a mess, as is recognizing the wrong
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> I'm not super convinced the end result is better. He said from the warm comfort of his home, with a full belly, writing on a supercomputer created in SV, with software written in SV, on a platform build by SV on a global network c
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TV helped changing quite a few regimes throughout history, and not always for the better. However, I do not think anybody would dispute the fact that TV was, overall, a net positive for mankind. Same with Silicon Valley. There are certain n
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> That goes for their software also, absolute junk. Compared to what? I am a BMW owner who would never recommend this brand to anybody because of its horrible build and software problems. Thank God for CarPlay!
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I never said he wasn't important. So was Hitler, btw. Marx's sick ideology just killed more. But I am glad you consider that an important contribution.
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> They move fast and break things. You forgot the third: they (Silicon Valley) also change the world. For the better. Most of my (and my family’s) every day work and fun are coming from SV. I would not give it up for anything else. If o
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Aren’t they mostly coming from the lest though? Preppers mostly come from the political right, I believe.
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> but it can't all go to corruption What makes you think so?
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> do you believe that it is always the best idea to continue development regardless of estimated impacts? Emphatically yes. The possible downsides are much smaller than the expected upside (as history shows) and we are really bad at pred
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Plenty of communist experiments ran unimpeded (a few are even running right now) and they pretty much all had the same predictable miserable ends. Oh, and to address your earlier point: > you fine fellow serfs have made this a fertile la
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> a manifesto inspired by the fascist manifesto This is literally not true.
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Anybody who tried has starved to death or needed a bloody revolution to get rid of their dictator and his nomenklatura.
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So it looks to me like the only thing they all have in common is the root word "to accelerate" - otherwise they are completely different ideologies.
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I thought Varoufakis stepped down in 2015 (after only half a year) and Greece's debt crisis continued until around 2018?!
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None of your examples have anything to do with fascism. You sound like Putin saying Ukrainians are Nazi because they vote for the west, reject his occupation and fight for their land. What?!
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> ad hominem fallacy It's not ad hominem to judge a critic's own track record in order to measure the weight of his words. Otherwise we'd end up listening to any little trust fund ideologues with no actual idea about how t

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