• Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    See, the thing is that workers have not traditionally enjoyed the freedom to engage in economic activity freely. Unless you were part of a privileged caste you were only allowed to work for others, instead of working for yourself.

  • underisk@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    i appreciate the sentiment but pasting Marx’s face over Omniman’s is maybe sending some mixed messages

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    At the same time, we’ll have to recognize that a world without megacorps is going to involve a much greater presence of state power in the technological sphere due to the need to standardize communication protocols to facilitate a free market of mutually communicable softwares and hardwares.

    The question will stop being about how we stop price gouging for the latest iPhone and more about how we prevent a situation like HIPAA where people are forced to use a less secure less efficient technology because it was the most efficient and secure at the time Congress was last able to get off it’s ass to legislate on the matter.

    • groet@feddit.de
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      4 months ago

      Corporations are doing a bad job at it as well. While Gouvernement standards tend to be slow and stagnant, the free market produces an incomprehensible sea of standards. Like with USB, HDMI, 3/4G signals, cat-X Internet cables. If a single global manufacturer decides to do things slightly different you get a new version of a standard that everybody has to be compatible with.