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Stability, legal leverage. It’s likely been hashed out in response to nVidia’s attempt to buy ARM.

https://www.gq.com/story/tim-cook-global-creativity-awards-c...

Tim Cook: we are very much focused on the long term.

If ARM ends up being acquired, Apple can unleash the lawyers to demand adherence to their 40 year deal.

Prior experience cannot be the for setting wages. No matter how rustled an employers jimmie’s over big numbers, when enough are out of because it does not make financial sense to take a job, people will revolt.

If small businesses cannot hang due to their model (and sensibilities) being based on 1990s math, the solution is tax the mega rich and rebalance the market in the aggregate.

Most DRM crackers aren’t in it for money but to prove DRM is a flawed and ridiculous concept.

That was my scene back in the day when there was less risk of the Feds kicking in the door. At least back then most of us saw it as a learning experience.

We developed that stuff because we were paid to.

We were paid to make and use those technologies because we were taught that’s how society works.

Fiat economics is not solving human problems. It’s propagating fiat economics.

Humans have no divine purpose. The universe does not force social norms on us. We do that to each other.

You exist to pass the butt… dollars around. Fiat economics has filled the biological hole religion stumbled upon, probably helped evolve.

The only reason for any of this is deference to those who came before.

You’re describing government. People cooperate through government to insure stability.

I will never understand the endless linguistic indirection when in the end it’s all Soylent Green; just people.