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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. They did. That's called competition. It forces companies to improve by destroying them, except they don't want that. And politicians don't want that, cause it makes corruption unstable.

Killed Detroit too, though. But, eh, helped other parts. It's life.

Thus already in the 90s with the TRON OS a different approach was chosen by US regulators - threaten Japan with sanctions if it's allowed to compete with Windows inside Japan .

They can't threaten China, but they can prevent Chinese competitive goods from entering US market and improving its economy again.

Bad economy - poor and stressed people, poor and stressed people - worse political decisions, worse political decisions - good for middlemen which in our age shouldn't exist frankly. We have the technologies for direct democracy, it's not 1920s.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

We have the technologies for direct democracy

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

One from the list, yes.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

Wish I could upvote twice. As far as I'm aware there's about 5 American politicians who actually care about more than just lining their pockets.