ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech

Re:ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech by cronjobber on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:49AM (#12120622)

Your points are technically true, but neither informs on whether Brexit happened over questions regarding sovereignty and immigration. Such questions obviously mattered and "the economy" (whatever and whoever that is) isn't the only concern of sovereign states.

You could argue that in a democratic capitalist market economy, government should concern itself predominantly with non-economic concerns of the people over economic welfare of its billionaire class. This ideal isn't always matched by reality, of course.

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Re:ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:27AM (#12121582)

>Such questions obviously mattered //

In fact they mattered so much the the leave campaign flagrantly perjured themselves to convince the voters of a false reality in order to get the vote they wanted. Democracy! It ain't what it used to be.

All the sovereign baloney bothers me too - I'm not better off as a lowly nobody that in having the Queen and PM May holding the sovereign power over me than I was having the relatively socialist EU powers over me, whether they were elected or not. I really don't get the argument beyond it being used as a veil for racism or a desire to return to The Empire.

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