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Towards?


Seriously, forward towards what? The "perfect society"?


Towards a more balanced distribution of corporate resources/wages/profits leading to a more healthy economy.


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I'm not downvoting.

By balanced I mean if everyone on earth had the same amount of money then the worlds' wealth would be perfectly balanced. I am not talking about fairness or whether or not the wealth was deserved.

At two ends of the spectrum we have wealth inequality and communism. The ideal sweet spot is somewhere in between the two extremes, right now the United States is leaning towards wealth inequality.


I can complain about going out in the rain and getting wet. End of story.


Protected in that you cannot be prosecuted for it perhaps.


You're thinking investment markets, not philanthropic giving markets. Any think tank is competitively attempting to gain funds to stay afloat. Some do this by lobbying for grants, some by soliciting private donations. But there's a finite amount of capacity to fund think tanks regardless of the source of income.

Google can certainly find other think tanks they like better.


I can get behind this description. Though it does mean that even the most communist and/or totalitarian governments have internal markets if source-agnostic-budget counts. I'm not sure how people with an anti-capitalist ideological bent would respond to that framing.


They probably wouldn't like it, but a market is a good way to describe those types of transactional backroom deal.


He's not silenced, they just took away the podium that says "sponsored by Google".


Cool. 88 more pages of functional specs on every project.


...and a police force with arrest powers, and corporate compliance offices that follow the letter of the law, and federal investigators that try and parse code...

And once you get big, you can't get any more revenue.

And I want to be king.


Microsoft wasn't split. It was informed that they could only do so much product integration.


People can only manipulate millions of others easily when they are led to believe that they should be led.


I thought it was clearly stated. It's just not one of those things that adds to the conversation, except perhaps by demonstrating the same principles of the direct action via the downvote. It's so rare I get something I both disagree with and which demonstrates immediately by its subject matter how to deal with it.


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