firadin

You need to read The Amazon Anti-Trust Paradox by current FTC head Lina Khan. She argues that the consumer price oriented monopoly definition is old and outdated in the modern setting. Price is not a sufficient proxy for market competitiveness, and in fact, price is often used to kill competitiveness by undercutting new and innovative products.

Google will take a hard right turn and SCOTUS will welcome them with immunity as long as they stay in line.

What a coincidence, a strong liberal fundraising account getting banned just as Musk promises to donate $45mil/month to the Trump campaign and complains about the "woke mind virus." I'm sure you can point to similar conservative accounts getting banned and staying banned for several hours right?

Great, lmk when there's a regular train from Boston to my office in Boxborough, which currently requires it's residents to drop off their own trash at the facility. I'm sure that'll be frequent and efficient right?

You're the type of person who would call universal healthcare "socialism", and it really shows.

What point? That you're a corporate bootlicker?

They would rightly be raked over the coals. But they won’t make such a dumb fucking move because it’s a dumb fucking move.

What a wild thing to assert without any reasoning.

By charging 3% instead of 30%? Do you really think their servers cost $8.5b? Does the work to distribute a game and process payment equal 30% of the labor required to make a game?

Me: "Rent seeking is an illegitimate practice, landlords steal money from laborers by extorting them for a necessary good!"

You: "Oh yeah? Why don't you just buy your own land and build your own apartment building?"

You're a dumbass.

This is a thread about how Valve makes over 8 billion dollars despite basically all their revenue coming from an in-game store that sells other people's content. Of course its too much.

Because they don't pay any of their actual workforce: the game devs they steal 30% from for every game sold.

Why would you trust steam? Valve famously invented lootboxes and tried to do the NFT market thing before NFTs were big. They are the strongest DRM on the market. What makes you think they're not just as greedy?