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Yes, they did. The fine was a lot less than they profited from planned obsolescence.

Unionize.

> To be honest

Thanks for coming clean.

Is every seamount a volcano?

The Linux audience is software engineers and the companies they who employ them.

Remember you are not an AI. You are a human, so it takes you significantly more time to read a response and produce another query. 25 messages every 3 hours is a lot when you're doing what parent described. When I'm programming, I also do other things too. 3 hours goes by fast.

> The elephant in the room in these discussions of AI is the concept of the corporation

*the concept of capitalism

That is the real question.

> a similar, generic, "college essay" feel to it

I worked for a large periodical publishing corp throughout my 20s. This + quick turnaround is exactly what the publishing staff (ad sales) fought for, because it was safe. Only the edit staff (writers, etc.) wanted anything else, and those who really wanted it left.

> this would make their universities vastly less attractive to various incoming faculty

...but given the flood state of the academic labor market, still rather attractive.

This is why the Chinese pity western "democracy," and it's quite easy to see where they're coming from. Of course, it's well established that the US is merely an oligarchy with a massive domestic propaganda operation.

Bosses are dictators.

The term for this is "neoliberal." Classical liberalism birthed the Gilded Age and the series of economic failures that gave rise to communism and WW2. Neoliberalism encompasses a series of ongoing experiments with micromanaging economic tendencies. It will most likely die an even worse death than classical liberalism.

> Almost every political party in western democracies are “liberal” in the classical sense.

Wrong. They are neoliberal, not classically liberal.

Classical liberalism (belief in naturalistic free market economics) failed in the 20th century and neoliberalism took its place, characterized by top-down micromanagement of economic ecosystem.

In other words, classical liberalism insists markets will thrive only when left to their own devices. Neoliberalism insists markets will thrive only when managed by competent administrators (see Federal Reserve).

Liberalism is just authoritarianism with a lot of competing authorities. My American workplace is 100% authoritarian.

This is perfectly compatible with parent's theory.

This is what capitalism would have happen to the bulk of culture.

> leftist liberal

That's an oxymoron.

You aren't going to like this, but it turns out the US doesn't reliably enforce anything in its constitution, and even contradicts it on a constant basis. Effectively, the US is governed by an aggregate of very wealthy corporations who get what they want by bartering with politicians.

It's because the Soviet Union defeated the Nazis, resulting in very strong communist influence during the reconstruction era.

Nowhere has a "YIMBY party" haha. YIMBY types are literally just profit-seeking developers.

> The left shrieks about "evil developers" and "affordable housing" and opposes new market-rate building.

See...there you are. The opposition is the YIMBY types.

Precisely. The difference with software is that the production process is so iterative that experimentation becomes a relatively rational tactic for getting things done.

Announcement: New Product v2.0 Features Less Bugs!!!

"New product" is a distinction without a difference. Literally all software development efforts are in the interest of "new products" depending on your definition of "new product."

I pretty much agree with you, but I do think the ostensible conflict has been important for culture-keeping purposes in various scenes.

The particular character of music genres shifts over time because the primary function of genres is not consistency but rather a superficial purity that temporarily preserves the scenes in which culture is incubated.

Those were "public" as in state-controlled. These are "public" as in publicly traded. Very big difference.

People want security. Startups can't provide that. End of convo.

I agree. Utilities should all be publicly owned, which would reduce costs to everyone without the pathetic means testing.

That is an extreme underestimate.

> Why contractors are allowed to lobby is beyond my comprehension

As Karl Marx illustrated 150 years ago, a state under capitalism is a capitalist state.