Google has sunk about $100m into developing Chrome. People need to expect to own things after making big investments. That's how any of this works.
dictate random policies like that and you will watch American capitalism die.
dictate random policies like that and you will watch American capitalism die.
Dumping a ton of money down the toilet doesn't mean you own the toilet.
Option 1: the definition of "capitalism" requires that zero regulation be applied. In that case, abandon "capitalism" and replace it with whatever you'd call the same model but with regulation.
Option 2: a significant amount of regulation actually is enough alone to fatally destabilize capitalism. I do not believe this to be the case, but if it were, then it should very likely be abandoned, but it's difficult to know how other options might behave in this hypothetical universe.
If that is not the assumption then we can just make arbitrary claims about anything and calculate "drift"
Definitions have an inherently arbitrary component, sure. But stable, precise definitions are far easier to reason with than a shifting definition like "whatever the US is doing right now".
Capitalism requires that the capitalists (who own for a living) are in control of the state, so it has little incentive to stop Google from messing with your system.
The only certain way to stop them is for workers (who work for a living, the majority of us) gain control of state power through a socialist revolution. Those historically are led by communists or similar.
So if you want control over your computer and ultimately life, join us in conspiring to overthrow capitalism.
I choose neither. Is there another alternative?
But it’s worth keeping in mind that the capitalists also control the media, school curriculums, academia (including economics and history), etc. It’s not hard for them to portray all socialist countries as far worse than they are, in order to discourage workers from rising up. And of course it is in the capitalists interest to do so.
I'd be even happier if governments treated small businesses the same as they treat large (mostly by making tax avoidance impossible, and making the large pay the same taxes as the small ones to), but that's practically impossible with the corruption in our governments.
You’re happier in a richer country, as are many of us Eastern Europeans that have been forced to emigrate. We could’ve been even happier in our own countries while having collective control over the means of production, but the (foreign) capitalists made sure that wasn’t possible through propaganda, coups, sanctions and invasions.
I haven't moved, I still live in the same city, the country is the one that doesn't exist anymore.
Only 100m?
It was when he wanted to own Ukraine that it rose to the level of significant intervention by the outside world.
That's one of my explicit goals, so good.
I'm from a former socialist country (both former socialist, and former country, since neither exist anymore).