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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by kiba on Saturday July 05, 2025 @10:43PM (#44477397)
Georgism is a prescription on removing unwarranted monopolies and taxing unreproducible privileges.

Tech companies are the same old story. They are monopolies like the rail companies of old. Ditto for whatever passes as AGI. They're just trying to become monopolists.

Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by 0xbadcafebee on Monday July 07, 2025 @12:35AM (#44486793)
...yes, and? Every capitalist company wants to become a monopoly. It's just not always easy to do so. We have dozens of companies in the USA that have been trying to become monopolies for years, with tons of reporting on it. Only tech companies get this intense scrutiny. I feel like it's some weird quirk of human fear, like how people fear planes the most even though they're by far the safest mode of transportation. People are just wigged out more by tech companies than grocery stores, coffee shops, pharmacies or telecommunications companies.