• verstra@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    After reading stories like this, I more and more convinced that if we want to have a free market, we need to limit the size of companies allowed to participate in it. Because if you have 2 companies controlling the whole market, they can and will produce “dynamic security”-type of garbage.

    • millie@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      This is honestly the realization we really, really need to have as a species. It kind of feels like the lesson a lot of what we’ve seen this year has driven home, and it’s something I’ve started hearing echoed, so maybe we’re starting to get there.

      This whole obsession with everything needing to constantly expand is absolutely destroying us, our environment, and everything good that we make.

      We’ve got to start going in the other direction.

    • Banzai51@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      We’re in this situation because the government gets kickbacks to craft policy in favor of businesses instead of the market overall or the consumers. No way they’ll limit the size of companies.