Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@mewmew @sjw@neckbeard.xyz
Governments are a problem because they are created and lead by imperfect humans. The more you want to solve problems via government, the bigger you'll have to make it, and the more the imperfect nature of humans shows within it.

Cronyism, corruption, short-sightedness, are all functions of humanity. As long as you have a government, you're gonna have these problems affect it.

I had a dream last night. I dreamt I was Gordon Freeman in the flesh. Or rather in the hazard suit.

@mewmew @sjw@neckbeard.xyz
I'm starting to think more and more that governments were a mistake...

@mewmew
I'd say that they're tearing apart the whole LGBT thing, but otherwise I'd say you're right. Although, I'm not sure how much the GLBT activist thing is really needed anymore in most western countries. Maybe it is time they got torn apart.

@mewmew @sjw@neckbeard.xyz
What if a logarithmic function was used instead of a linear $1 = 1 vote? Do you think it could help? Have it so that 1 million $1 votes > 1 vote of $1 million

@nerdman @sjw@neckbeard.xyz
Yeah, it's a pretty interesting idea. What I'd change though, to have the poor vote a bit stronger, I'd make the increase of vote power a logarithmic function, and not a linear one. Have the vote of a person giving 2 million dollars be less than 2 people giving 1 million dollars each.

@p @holot @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @mrsaturday @stargoose @0x00
>Wal-mart never say Amazon as a competitor
So companies aren't competing against each other unless they acknowledge each other? That's interesting perspective on the market you have there... (that was sarcasm).

>That's how you become Coca-Cola or Pepsi: deadlocked for 50 years
Again, you're making the same mistake, of comparing long established markets and companies, whose days of youthful innovation after innovation are basically behind them, with a sector that is still very young and still growing at a frightening pace. Let's look at this in another 50-100 years, and see if Facebook vs Twitter vs Google vs Microsoft don't also end up in a deadlock.

@cirno @holot @igel @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @endlessmike @stargoose @0x00

Yeah, we should definitely build him a statu... wait a second...

@xj9 @holot @p @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @mrsaturday @stargoose @0x00
>some people have this thing called a creative drive
Yes, individual people will sometimes do things purely out of their creative drive.
Companies don't work like that.

@p @holot @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @mrsaturday @stargoose @0x00

Sure, you gain market share by innovation. But you're not gonna innovate unless you're incentivised to do it because of market competition.

"Competing harder" means precisely trying to find out what the others' weak points are and attacking them. You somehow think that Amazon wasn't "directly competing", but it's exactly what they did. They found out that everyone else was shit at diversity of products and infrastructure and worked at that to steal away clients from every company with physical stores. Battling over the same customers, and getting them to buy toilet paper from you instead of Wall-Mart is exactly what direct competition is.

@p @holot @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @mrsaturday @stargoose @0x00
You forgot the part where Amazon is going back to creating small grocery stores.

@igel
Yeah... I'm with the astronomers on this one. Fuck Musk for ruining the night sky.

@Akio
This is a perfect example of why the stage performance is everything.

@0x00 @mrsaturday @holot @p @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @stargoose
While greed had it's part to play, I'm not even sure if it's the only problem. I think a issue is, that they had the resources to grow, they wanted to grow, and they literally had nothing else new to grow to after the "streaming other studios' content" phase was successful. The only thing left for them to do was to basically revert back, and do what Hollywood has been doing for 100 years.
From one of the most innovative companies, it basically went back in time with their strategy.

@p @holot @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @mrsaturday @stargoose @0x00
I think you missed the point. He was comparing the tech industry of IBM and Bill Gates time, that was still just starting up, with the movie industry (of today), that even at that point was a fully establish thing.

@0x00 @mrsaturday @holot @p @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @stargoose
>Netflix vs the old Film industry
Only to basically become a part of the same industry.
You can't compare the space the tech industry had to grow in, in the 80s-90s, to what is left for movie/music industry today. Sure, there are small improvements and changes, but that's really about it. Small is the key word. Netflix was revolutionary for a few years at most. Now they're churning out the same shit as everyone else.

@0x00 @mrsaturday @holot @p @igel @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @stargoose

You're comparing a market sector that was still in it's infancy, with one that is highly matured (if not fully). Not the same thing.

@mrsaturday @holot @p @igel @canidaeportent@kiwifarms.cc @stargoose @0x00

Monopolies don't need state, because at a point they can have enough influence and power to be a pseudo-state by themselves.