How does an oligarchy come into existence in a capitalist democracy that didn’t start with a monarchy? Can you see a relationship between the process of consolidation and the creation of this oligarchy, where the oligarchs are the people who accumulated wealth through this process, gradually using this wealth to capture the regulators, leading to more consolidation, more wealth and greater capture, and repeat? We didn’t wake up one day with an oligarchy that wasn’t there yesterday. It’s not like all of the current oligarchs can be traced back to an oligarchic family from the past.
I’m not familiar with the corporate landscape in Germany, but the US and Canada also have anti-trust law and competition agencies whose purpose is to prevent consolidation. Why hasn’t that prevented it?
Businesses need to fail because otherwise the wrong people end up leading.
When businesses fail, their competitors buy their assets, employees, customer bases, and get bigger. Keep playing that a few more rounds and you get a monopoly that can and will prevent or buy new entrants. Then anyone including the wrong people in the industry enter this one company because that’s the only company in this industry.
This isn’t an argument against letting businesses fail. It’s an argument to show that the game of competition doesn’t produce stable competitive environment in the long run. Instead it’s a temporary stage that some markets exist in on the way to consolidation. You can find countless examples for this around us. And therefore letting businesses fail through competition isn’t a long term solution to these problems.
That’s the sad part. They only get the first half right. 😂
It’s not journalism. It’s entertainment.
“We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually, hopefully much more productive,” Trump said.
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The long term downsides won’t affect them much.
Since the project is already okay with Github, perhaps a set of polls in Github with this feature, linked far and wide in Lemmy.
0.5% in January alone
That’s a great point and a really low hanging fruit that would likely help with adoption and retention. The defaults weren’t great for me either.
If people went as far as registering in a Lemmy instance, they clearly have some affinity towards the Fediverse. Getting through Fediverse to work nicely for them is what bridges the gap. It’s the same with anything people do. Better defaults is a trivial low hanging fruit that can help perhaps significantly.
There’s faster ways to get data. We can do a few surveys on existing users. We’ll get hundreds of responses easily. Perhaps multiple surveys, one for each setting.
Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomize than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.
Why did you do that to yourself… 🥹
For some reason I thought it’s based in the UK, but apparently not.
Time for China to step in I guess.
AFAIK the American plants use inputs from Taiwan. I don’t know what inputs exactly.
The horse-car analogies rarely achieve what you want them to, especially in situations where we don’t have the benefit of hindsight.
Oof, heavy shade. Well done! Makes the Fediverse sound cooler.