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Can we agree that MSGOOGLEAPPLE are defacto arms of governments? If the USGOV wasn't getting what they want from them, they would have been broken up a long time ago (antitrust). China would kick manufacturing out.

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...and then also things like Y Combinator being one of the recruitment arms for this US empire (alongside all the US universities like Stanford, MIT, etc.) - luring technologists and scientists from other countries in, in order to capture and monopolize new advances and adding these innovations to the US portfolio as part of the supposedly neutral US-led 'intellectual property' regime (WIPO, TRIPS, etc.) [1].

Of course this is nothing new. This is one of my favorite scenes in Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg

I am against any system that aims to make knowledge artificially scarce and monopolizes parts of our collective human inheritance (all of humanity's scientific and technological discoveries). I am for new systems which respect both our world's 1) actual material scarcity (natural resources, human labor, etc.) and 2) it's immaterial abundance (any knowledge/resources that can be replicated by (digital) technology).

[1] Against Rentier Capitalism: David Graeber, Michael Hudson & Guy Standing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlIXAUGans&t=944s

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