Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech

Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by Buttons840 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:39PM (#20751844)

You seem to be arguing that the same principles of government should apply at every scale. I don't think that can work. Should the small town consider purchasing a couple B2 bombers? Should the national government decide if my road needs to be repaved?

The plan we are discussing is a plan for national scale governance, and since your example is not on a national scale, the plan would not apply. If the isolated town wishes to enact their own laws to regulate Walmart, they may do so.

The locals may govern themselves locally. National leaders govern on a national scale.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by utopian3 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:16PM (#20752758)

Don’t be so cavalier in shrugging off the person you’re responding to. This kind of national scale governance is equatable to “centralized planning” governance. You have to consider it from the local economy perspective, otherwise you’ll be perpetuating inequality in many parts that you don’t see.

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