The real reason is that monopolies or other forms of market power prevent competitive pricing, wages and rents.

It is true. But this war doesn’t promise relief, only hope. Ali has just been replaced by his son now.

I thought federalization was about not having an owner of a platform. Decentralization. I have some reading to do

Ah so it’s about moving away from Lemmy and back to Reddit for example?

What does it mean to defederate?

Wasn’t Israel the country that has killed the most journalists in the world?

Couldn’t they make it locationally dependent?

Ah, I see. Not too worried about this then

Is this only for Californians? Only Americans? Or everywhere?

Ah I see, good point

Ah I see. Idk for me it was kinda opposite. My headphones wires got fucked up every three years or so. I still haven’t replaced my earbuds. Or do you mean how batteri waste is worse for the environment?

How is that?

My Iranian friends are telling me that Iran blew up the school, but idk.

I mean Adam Smith even said you have to prevent monopolies and tax land.

I wonder what New York would have been if Henry George had become mayor back then

To be fair, this is a result of the lack of competition or the formation of trusts, hence why we had anti trust laws

I like this, but how do you avoid people making bad decisions because they think it will benefit society but then it makes things worse? Like the kind of questions experts are better suited to know. For example rent control is repeatedly proven to be a bad policy, but people tend to think its good cause logic shows that “prices high, lets make them less directly”. Experts would maybe look at the underlying causes of prevention of construction, height restrictions, land speculation, and expansions of credit supply as a cause of housing unaffordability.

What to do then?

Solution anonymous leaders? Or leaders as groups/institutions rather than individuals.

You can’t watch tv or film on Zen cause it doesn’t have license for that