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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by pampa on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:38AM (#25032642)
> Don't get me wrong, I love Apple, but I don't love this hyper-centralization of wealth and it would be better for the world if we defanged the power that billionaires have.

We tried it here in russia back in 1917. But then oops! something went wrong.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by sebmellen on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:54AM (#25032756)
In all fairness, there is an extremely large middle ground between Communist insurrection and loophole-diseased corporatism.

Just using anti-trust laws to their full effect would be enough.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by eru on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:58AM (#25033840)
Well, in practice anti-trust law has proven a better tool for the people who can afford expensive lawyers than it's supposed intended purpose.

Funny enough, even the original paradigmatic case of breaking up Standard Oil was a farce.

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