Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
by Belopolye on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:27PM
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I don’t agree. Conceptually “the market” in this context is just individual purchasing decisions in the aggregate.
The people, voting with their dollars, have decided that they simply don’t care about privacy, libre software, etc as much as we wish they would.
Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
by nonrandomstring on Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:22PM
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Perhaps you might agree if you expand your view to encompass more than
money. The words "just" and "aggregate" are where I think something
important is missed. Collapsing the whole of human life and its
myriad vectors of complexity down to one scalar, one single "dollar
value", and then based on that making pronouncements about whether
people value "privacy" or "security" or whatever, seems child-like to
me (The idea. Not you. If you really hold it I hope you can move
beyond it.)
"Markets" are like Father Christmas and "The Tooth Fairy"; a comforting one-dimensional idea that ought to serve us for a while, and then be discarded for a more mature perspective on the world. We must all try harder to find words that puncture the suffocating veil of "economic realism" that seems to hold back so much thinking.
I'll say in the same spirit that Margaret Thatcher said "there's no such thing as society" [0] that;
There's no such thing as markets.
[0] Please read the full quote (and for extra fun replace the word society with markets). Thatcher was saying something far more subtle than the sociopathy she is credited for. Markets have just replaced "society" as the ideological symbol of those who need something to get on their knees before, or blame.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/context-for-margaret-thatchers...