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The monstrous tech bros destroying humanity by bringing about electric cars, intelligent machines, mapping the world, bringing information to anyone anywhere. I on the other hand, …

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It sells for $100k. Bet all $100k cars move volume

“As someone familiar with the aviation industry” you should know people “skiplagging” won’t check bags, which destroys your whole argument since that’s where all the inefficiencies…

Because a lot of those business are only possible through monumental amounts of work and/or investment and selling is way easier than being an owner-operator for years under very p…

You can literally use Chrome, Workspace, Drive, Android and Maps without seeing a single ad, without an ad blocker, without EVER using google search, for free.

#1. Would I have used the computer at the same time/place/duration? Then yes it is free. It literally cost me nothing. #2. You can pay? Also is the argument somehow that the free t…

It’s fucked that people start companies because they have the safety net of possibly being acquired even if the business doesn’t work out?

So you’re telling me the evil monopolist that charges nothing has a competitor, and that competitor is free? Which is why we must break up the evil monopolist?

So in this transaction you’re exchanging something that is individually worthless for something that is individually valuable. Which is a bad thing and should stop. Right now! Ps: …

If I build a movie theater and give away the tickets knowing that I can make money on ads before a movie that does not mean that 5 minutes of your eyesight is now worth something

Your data is worthless. Please do tell me how much you could sell your “data” for right now.

Like I said in my comment. All of those things are things you can PAY FOR, today! To multi-trillion dollar corporations! The time you can go back to giving away your money for thin…

A) Do you pay them? - No: then yes it is free “But my data” Have your ever sold your data? Would the value you could ever possibly receive for your data ever equate to the value yo…

Please do tell us how Google is a burden to the whole country. Is it the free maps? free mobile OS? free email? free cloud storage? free video service? free office suite? free desk…

Yes I can see the dystopian consequences of google’s search monopoly profits, which they have used to do such horrible things as: - Providing a free alternative to Microsoft’s mono…

This illustrates why breaking up google is a good idea given their egregious charges (free) for things people used to/still spend money on, such as: - An office software suite - Gl…

If only housing could be more expensive

A hack that has worked for me is having another person set up the code for screen time settings, in a way that there is just enough friction for the often unconscious reflex to ope…

To me the best argument for UBI is that it would obliterate a bunch of economic disincentives that are dragging down on societal progress. To be clear I’m working from two assumpti…

Financial Times is #1 by far. WSJ is a good second option. Perhaps subscribe with a virtual card you can cancel?

A prisoner costs the same in funding ($150k/year) as 10 school children ($15k/year). The two million inmates in america cost the same as educating 20 million kids -or increasing fu…

Prisoners also cost a ridiculous amount of public funds -I’ve seen numbers in the $100k-$150k/year range-. Prison work contributes to sentence reduction and contributes to their co…