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I talk trash about big tech constantly, I’m hardly propping them up. They have no information advantage, just a political capital one.
The authors are using their political insight, based on the last generation or so of political rhetoric to emotionally minimize others value of Big Tech, suggesting that to be of local economic benefit.
> It’s not clear what you are trying to say here. Can you explain.
Our economy is predicated on a post hoc conclusion based upon information manipulation.
We denigrate humans spending time economy on public solutions to problems, and celebrate deference to privatization.
This creates a neurological preference for the latter over the former. We circularly continue to justify storing more value in these organizations ultimately based upon the initial post hoc observation; this is what happened so it must keep happening!
Never mind that ultimately it’s human agency being co-opted into propping up the value of others and undermining themselves.
Politics needs to consider the time dimension for the masses. If it’s going to take someone their life to pay off a debt because society told them that’s just how it works, that’s hardly freedom. Politics largely just concerns itself with space; ownership of property. Not the tax on our time for things other than making sure Bezos and Musk are still rich.
Which is ultimately my point. None of us have to view Apple as “valuable”.
It’s simply a political routine built upon exposure to previous political routine. Time series of the brain.
There’s a tax on our agency to keep propping up systems that are devaluing our agency to the benefit of a moneyed minority.
We’re under no political obligation to enable or protect that, no matter how much economic theory you copy-paste.
Imo the free market is not Apple and Dell computers, or Ford and Chevy cars. It’s between public and private power.
One has cost us reliability and resiliency for fiscal efficiency. We do not have to politically accept that.
From a mathematical perspective alone, these companies have soaked up immense wealth.
There’s little to go around for infrastructure projects while it’s locked up in private vaults.
Many communities did not have much say in how decimated the local economy would become by the last few decades of neoliberalism. It’s placed a heavy burden on many lives.
Until vaccination rates hit a tipping point, putting people back together now will create a spike.
I do not really get the concern? So it takes longer for Timmy or Alice to get to multiplication?