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Re:The Price-Fixing Economy by salawat on Saturday October 14, 2023 @06:51AM (#37879515)
When it's entirely enabled by your vein of work, it is absolutely fair game to call out your fellow practitioners. Further, not everyone here is FAANG. Nor does everyone here necessarily get the majority of motivation on what they work on from the paycheck rather than the effects of the work done.

As the ostensible computer scientists in the room. Sitting back and not pointing out that there exist "monopoly pricing indirection mechanisms" implemented as businesses is really failing to do one's moral and ethical responsibility.

Re:The Price-Fixing Economy by lotsofpulp on Saturday October 14, 2023 @08:41AM (#37880024)
> As the ostensible computer scientists in the room. Sitting back and not pointing out that there exist "monopoly pricing indirection mechanisms" implemented as businesses is really failing to do one's moral and ethical responsibility.

And yet the empirical evidence is not there due to nonexistent profit margins.