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by nickpp 4y ago
Because that innovation is market driven and turns out "brick of glass" is what people want, no matter what you or I or the Brussels bureaucrats say.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Do you know what families need? Food, clothes, heating and cooling, medicine, technology, mobility, various forms of entertainment and so on. Do you know how you make those? Mostly with those "bullshit" corporate jobs.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Do you have another system in mind? Go ahead and propose it.
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by nickpp 4y ago
May they prevail against the great evil that has befallen upon them.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Both capital owners and workers are paid according to the prices set by the free market for their input. Most of the generated wealth however is captured by the society (ie we each derive more value from the stuff we buy than the cost we pa
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by nickpp 4y ago
Pretty much every country that tried to tax wealth had to back up exactly because of wealthy and capital flight. > local competitors will immediately spring up What is your experience starting new businesses? It is a highly difficult and
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by nickpp 4y ago
Without their capital the whole organization where workers are creating would not exist in the first place. So the market is rightly rewarding capital owners for risking it in the first place. Do you think that is easy and just "collec
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by nickpp 4y ago
Actually I want what "progressives" say they want: > people should live and die under reasonable expectations of health, growth and participation in labor, able to bring up their children to aspire to a better living standards
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by nickpp 4y ago
Jeff Bezor is seen as "evil" only by leftists who would love to steal people the freedom to choose where to work and how.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Growing under communism, my parents were dirt-poor. So after the fall I had to do it the hard way: first got a job, saved enough money to have a little runway, then start a small business, etc. But I have nothing against people who grew up
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by nickpp 4y ago
> you can't compete Have you ever tried? You can always compete - your imagination is the only limit. Innovate your way against established players for fun and success.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Have you tried? VCs beg you to spend the money they give you as long as that increases your chances of success. That is how IT workers got to enjoy the tremendous salaries and benefits we currently have.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Lots of VCs willing to give you money to try, if you have an idea. This very forum belongs to one of them.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Jeff Bezos managed to. I wish more people would try, instead of saying "can't be done". Of course very few would succeed or become billionaires but in the process they will create jobs and companies and tremendous value for a
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by nickpp 4y ago
Their profit is your opportunity then: open a competing company, pay people better while still making a decent profit and enjoy! Most of the current crop of companies being seen as "unbeatable monopolies" did not exist a quarter c
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by nickpp 4y ago
Until he does, the two aren't equivalent though.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Is he putting that info out there for every psycho to see? Google Maps is tracking me every day and I have no problem with it. But it would certainly piss me off if that info was fed into a dedicated social media account.
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by nickpp 4y ago
> If they are powerful, there certainly and obviously is. Where is the real-time data on Putin & Biden's whereabouts then? > what Elon will do next with his obscene wealth What does that has anything to do with his location?
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by nickpp 4y ago
It's incredible the mental gymnastics some people go through to justify behaviors they would find unacceptable if directed to their own person. Bottom line is: there is no justifiable reason to publish real-time location info of somebo
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by nickpp 4y ago
Any idea why?! I find that the modern WinUI is impossible to use from any language other than .NET.
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by nickpp 4y ago
> programmers sure seem to love it Unless they have to implement it. It sure is a pain! :)))
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by nickpp 4y ago
In Europe I've seen airports and cities and even countries dead for weeks due to strikes. In my country I've seen union leaders become politicians and then in jail for corruption. In US I've seen evil laws (AB5) imposed on pe
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by nickpp 4y ago
Touché. But a deal was imposed, just not the requested paid sick days. With such massive government interventions though, this sounds like anything but a free-market environment.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Scientist's work is not necessarily valuable either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize Who would you like to appoint as an arbiter for what "valuable work is"? If certain people enjoy and pay
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by nickpp 4y ago
Maybe he didn't want the economy shut down on his watch. But if it took the most powerful man in the world to stop them, US Unions are powerful indeed.
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by nickpp 4y ago
And unions are exactly that powerful. A strike can easily shut down a company, a town or a country. I do not see a similar power on the corporation's side. Firing everybody would just kill the corporation as well.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Aren't unions just as much "people" as corporations are? And corporation owners could very well be pension funds...
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by nickpp 4y ago
Please do point out my logical error. I see countless examples of competition keeping corporations in check. What is keeping Unions in check then?
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by nickpp 4y ago
The great majority of people do not care about "privacy" and gladly give it away for something as frivolous as Facebook or TikTok. So it wasn't a democratic process that gave birth to GDPR. Now tech is pretty underrepresented
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by nickpp 4y ago
Corporations are kept in check by competition from other corporation. Uniting is called cartel and is illegal. Unions on the other hand are allowed to join indefinitely, until they become multinational humongous forces like Teamsters. So th

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