You’re in the US. I’m in Europe. I am waiting to order my European UK smartphone with a physical keyboard, as do a lot of XDA-dev ppl, once the company, fxtec finally starts shipping again :)
People are not the same.
If people in the US democratically and consensually want to have products that are are “innovative even if harmful”, that is ok to me.
Dragging the whole world into this (Altman has worldwide plans) is something I am not on board with. Even in the US not everyone, not everyone at all agrees that “disrupting” things is good.
Say, artists. A whole profession that tech made it’s enemy. A whole set of friendships broken, “disrupted” in the name of “progress”
You see it this way, “brave silicon valley achieves all tasks with libertarianism”. I see it as “an inferior product such as iPhone and Android dominates the market because they lobbied everyone and broke capitalism :)”. European companies had alternative plans for how phones look like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
It had open-source customizable social media clients (no walled garden), root out of the box, and “a single app for messaging where contacts are merged when a person has one on WA and one on FB”). Of course, a touch screen. And you can type whole books on it.
Again. This phone doesn’t look like what Nokia was doing 5 years before that, at all. This is innovation.
This is a better product in terms of features for a lot of people. It is innovative.
To sum up, I still feel that slower, small and multiple-company, and regulated “just right” capitalism produces steady innovation and safety. Unregulated, monopolistic capitalism produces things like McDonald’s: massive, exploitative, low quality, not changing much in 10 years, kinda harmful, addictive...
You’re in the US. I’m in Europe. I am waiting to order my European UK smartphone with a physical keyboard, as do a lot of XDA-dev ppl, once the company, fxtec finally starts shipping again :)
People are not the same.
If people in the US democratically and consensually want to have products that are are “innovative even if harmful”, that is ok to me.
Dragging the whole world into this (Altman has worldwide plans) is something I am not on board with. Even in the US not everyone, not everyone at all agrees that “disrupting” things is good.
Say, artists. A whole profession that tech made it’s enemy. A whole set of friendships broken, “disrupted” in the name of “progress”
You see it this way, “brave silicon valley achieves all tasks with libertarianism”. I see it as “an inferior product such as iPhone and Android dominates the market because they lobbied everyone and broke capitalism :)”. European companies had alternative plans for how phones look like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
It had open-source customizable social media clients (no walled garden), root out of the box, and “a single app for messaging where contacts are merged when a person has one on WA and one on FB”). Of course, a touch screen. And you can type whole books on it.
Again. This phone doesn’t look like what Nokia was doing 5 years before that, at all. This is innovation.
This is a better product in terms of features for a lot of people. It is innovative.
To sum up, I still feel that slower, small and multiple-company, and regulated “just right” capitalism produces steady innovation and safety. Unregulated, monopolistic capitalism produces things like McDonald’s: massive, exploitative, low quality, not changing much in 10 years, kinda harmful, addictive...