Post AbsEMSeR3yPucZcvQG by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
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 (DIR) Post #AbsEMSeR3yPucZcvQG by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
       2023-11-16T19:25:51.344Z
       
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       Apple is kinda proof positive that the "free market" will not and does not allow nor encourage companies to do "the right thing" and benefit the consumers and that, rather, companies will consistently do really shitty things that hurt their customers until they're otherwise forced not to (usually by things like governments).RE: https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/9m54846rr3
       
 (DIR) Post #AbsLChMqC27p2ugmGm by AnonymooseGuy@mas.to
       2023-11-16T20:33:35Z
       
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       @adiz I'm old enough to remember Microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" campaigns.And then Apple was seen as the savior.Nope.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbsLFVkbq8Wdt19DTU by yogthos@mas.to
       2023-11-16T19:51:18Z
       
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       @adiz this necessarily has to be the case because profit is the sole fitness function for a business. Companies end up optimizing for behaviors that make the company more profitable and allow it to continue to stay in business.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbsYJ5BLrWie30goC0 by obi@mas.to
       2023-11-16T23:07:27Z
       
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       @adiz true but then again consider how slow and inept govt has been in breaking up oligopolies. might as well take your chances that reduced regulatory capture under anarchism will break even wrt competition
       
 (DIR) Post #AbsYJ6I7jpjLUIrjO4 by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
       2023-11-16T23:09:20.004Z
       
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       @obi@mas.to lol yeah zero regulation or state interference sounds preferable stares at slave plantations