I keep seeing Apple take a beating. But I can’t help but think this is politically motivated. I’ve seen private-government collusion first hand; create paranoia, goto government with a solution, get some custom legislation or exec order; profit.
Politicians began hating on tech corp and promising changes. We’ve seen attacks on section 230 in the press and bills popping up.
This is not going away. My guess is it’s a hedge against government who decided to pass some messages along.
“Why won’t Apple help us fight this?” being suggested by political grifters in both parties. Cable news will hassle them.
I’m anti-crypto cause not enough people can understand how it works as a value store.
It’s fascist to peddle what is effectively magic as truth of reality when it’s just another man-made concept power brokers will (already have?), manipulate for their outsized gain.
Nation state money schemes are low tech and well known; they haven’t changed much. We don’t need to make a meta-value store to exchange for nation state currency, at great material expense. I’d propose the opposite; we stop treating people like concepts we must pressure to import our perspectives and preferences.
It’s unverified, but I’m pretty sure if we just made medicine, offered education, and built technology for those ends rather than moved at the drumbeat of elder rich to validate their once youthful existence, and pipe dreams none of us will live to verify came true, humanity would be in a much better place.
Talk about energy vampires; don’t focus on living a varied and full life! Focus on validating the rich! Focus on consuming what we can make the best margin on! Watch our ads so you never forget us!
And then once they’re empowered… my privacy! My freedom of speech!
“Things like limited liability and corporate personhood not only allow for incredible economic growth through financial innovation…”
“Nonsense layered on nonsense layered on nonsense enables people to trade goods and services!”
Because we did not have those natural abilities before these laws.
The past literally happened. But similar to how America decided they were not British anymore, there’s little natural reason to LARP 1900’s capitalists except to kowtow to politically approved assessment of our agency.
Maybe it made sense when the average person could not read or write, but we’re a bit beyond that point.
> “Nonsense layered on nonsense layered on nonsense enables people to trade goods and services!”
We traded before the invention of currency, too, but not very much because it wasn't very efficient.
We started companies before the invention of financing, too, but not as many because it was hard to fund a company unless you were rich.
So no, fictitious legal frameworks for economics are not nonsense, they are innovations, and allow for more economic growth and prosperity. They are "financial technology" in a very real sense.
As I said, they made sense in the past. We’ve also moved on from social constructs before. Our biology pushes us to forget the past innately; we need to update our cognitive software.
Economics is a meta-analysis of natural human behavior. It’ll be true that we behave that way without the analysis. The value in that analysis is for behavioral management, not people.
We need not empower “economists” politically, or enable protectionism as a result of their insights, which enriches a minority unfairly, and provides them means of to participate in political corruption (see Yellen getting money from banks and being all anti crypto).
We absolutely have no natural or legal obligation to capitalism, as we’re actually a socialist system, where negotiations make the decisions; it’s just they’re gated and flow to industrialists.
We moved on from rotary phones and horse n buggy as science and technical discovery enabled it. We can certainly move on from favoring ephemeral currency being our economic motivator.
This forum is all “disrupt!” and I keep seeing the same few coming out on top. Keep disrupting.
