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by nickpp 2y ago
Grow - why?! So we can be the next company squished by the bureaucrats?
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by nickpp 2y ago
Well, let's say ads work. I am not convinced, but you're persuading me. :) Can't outlaw them - we still need them to quickly inform & educate the masses. The governments will definitely use them even if just for "goo
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by nickpp 2y ago
> this sort of generic ideological argument isn't the intellectually curious conversation we're looking for here Do you have a concrete advice on how to deal with ideological tangents like the "late stage capitalism"
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by nickpp 2y ago
> Debatable. It's only debatable among people who never built a business in their life, not not among entrepreneurs. > Microsoft falling prey to antitrust only led to a new generation The slap on the wrist Microsoft received with
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> private business is there to enrich its owners The value captured by the owners is a tiny slice of the value provided to the society. For example, the value I get from my iPhone is much much greater than the money I pay for it - it&#x2
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by nickpp 2y ago
> private business, whose mission is to serve only itself Any private business's primary mission is to serve its customers - in order to even exist.
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by nickpp 2y ago
I never said that, please reread my post.
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Just in time for Factorio 2.0.
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Only if that fall comes as a result of natural competition and market forces (like what happened to IBM for example). But if the fall was the result of government culling and interference with the free market, a chilling effect will take pl
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by nickpp 2y ago
So far, in software, no they don’t. Still want their competition: keeps the local business on their toes. I want them both .
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by nickpp 2y ago
As a consumer a care greatly about the fate of businesses: they are the ones providing the services and products I enjoy. The government gives me nothing. Less than nothing, actually, since they are taking most of my income for the crap the
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by nickpp 2y ago
What do you think innovators will feel when they see the government breaking up a private company? Do you think they’ll be more or less motivated to create one to meet the same fate down the road in the unlikely case of success, after immea
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by nickpp 2y ago
We are learning and teaching machines. We can't help influencing and being influenced. Any interaction we have with another human being will influence us. Reading a book, an article or a simple blog or forum post will influence my mind
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> convince you to buy stuff Ever bought something you didn't actually want? Were you persuaded to want something? What was the exact mechanism? Were you lied to? "Made to" somehow? > net positive for the world How exact
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by nickpp 2y ago
Life is a "paperclip maximizer".
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I assure you I am not. I lived under communism so I know it’s stench. It is usually quickly followed by dictatorship though, since force must be used to keep people living under it. Otherwise productive people will naturally pursue prosperi
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A communist government will manage to convert any riches into abject poverty. Every single time.
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by nickpp 2y ago
I thought getting regularly infected with seasonal diseases keeps your immune system up-to-date against the pathogen mutations and avoids a rarer but more dangerous episode down the road. But I guess without a serious study my belief is har
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Fewer and fewer get nothing. Capitalism raised billions out of poverty and continues to do so, in every place it is allowed to work.
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Without profit there is no reason anybody will provide those. Countries that tried socializing food - starved. Capitalism is the only one that brought plenty - because there is an incentive to do so.
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Got it. Thank you!
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by nickpp 2y ago
I really didn’t get this tweet. I go to the mall anytime I need to. Support local businesses every day. What’s the connection with going to the office?! Can anybody explain?
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by nickpp 2y ago
The very first words of my initial message warned you I am talking strictly about my team. I do know excellent engineers working solely remote. Not on my team though, and they are freelancing contractors. Different organizations, different
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by nickpp 2y ago
You have a point: the best engineers do tend to have an underdeveloped social life. On the other hand, the ones that love to suck up are the ones with the great social skills. Again, sample of one, so take with the grain of salt, do not dra
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by nickpp 2y ago
Sample of one, but around me best engineers came back to work soon after Covid ended, show up every day, communicate and collaborate. The less productive are the ones dragging their feet, coming up with excuses to stay home and hide as much
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by nickpp 2y ago
> some people really just buy anything.. This is tiresome. Believe what you like. I actually lived under both systems so at least I can speak from my experience. I learned on my own skin which one I'd "buy". I am willing t
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> Scandinavia Which country exactly? Oil-rich Norway has about 5 million people and is basically a democratic Saudi Arabia. Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the USA - quite far from the egalitarian society socialists dream ab
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Socialism still failed everywhere it was tried while free markets are invariably lifting nations out of poverty. Mrs Thatcher was smart enough to recognize that, no matter what her other failings were.
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You can do that exactly once. Because after that - you won’t have any new startups, new companies, new wealthy people, nothing. Nobody will start any venture knowing the government is greedily waiting to confiscate it all. Investors will re
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by nickpp 2y ago
> "Cheating on your taxes = stealing from the people" is a such a well established fundamental axiom Excuse me?! Cheating on your taxes is illegal. Minimizing your taxes is what everyone of us does - it is perfectly normal and

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