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Unsure why @Nathanf22's comment was downvoted to death. I would also suggest Lobste.rs and Reddit. But then again, RSS seems to work quite well in my case.

Of course.

Fair points.

Oh, it's even 'better' than that. To quote from an article in the Guardian: It’s a short book but if you read it you’ll see that a decent editor could have got it down to one sentence. …

Like someone mentioned already, it's a demonstration of power. But it goes well beyond that: it's about domination, discipline, constant monitoring, the reduction of individual agency, humil…

Not contradicting the second part, but I want to emphasise that they are different things. Slavery (and capitalism) can be extremely inefficient and simultaneously wildly profitable.

Thanks for clarifying. > It should be as easy as possible, if the goal is to have an efficient market. I'd argue that the goal was never to just have an efficient market, for there's abso…

Yeah, that is expected I speculate. Or maybe it isn't, depending of how one chooses to look at things. But it's not public subsidies, as it actually runs the highest surplus, both in absolut…

Precisely. There are even strong arguments to support this take; they speak about a "free market" that simply never existed, an "invisible hand" that supposedly beneficial, the rid…

This shifts the discussion elsewhere, but I'm happy to address the points you raised. > [regulations] appeared because voters want low taxes and they want subsidies Says who? If we move beyond…

The dream.

> Firms are just other people. They take on more and more risk. I have to disagree with that, I think it's a very American interpretation on the situation. A business is an organised legal…

That's an interesting take, which contradicts what I know. I'd be interested in reading some specialist literature on that.

It seems that you're framing it as if regulation is some random burden that appeared out of nowhere rather than a defence mechanism that emerged because businesses repeatedly abused workers, cut …

I will never use dark mode if I can avoid it. The idea that it's somehow better is a bit shady [0][1] (save for mobile devices where arguably it may help save some energy), but I absolutely under…

That's not legally correct in the US, EU, or the UK. Private ownership gives Amazon a lot of discretion over its own site design, messaging and whatnot, but not unlimited freedom to do or say wha…

Allow me to reply to your points in that case. > Efficient means their value outputs are high relative to their inputs. To quote someone online, you've put together some meme-like oversimplifi…