Trees don’t generate large profits this quarter, obviously.

AI music is also going to suck if you give it shitty pop music to train on.

I’m a “follower” of the Austrian School of Economics

Okay, so you admit you have no idea how economics work. That’s really cool you’re part of an economics fanfic club though.

In fact, monopolies can only survive through government-grant privileges

This is just false. You dont understand economics at all if you dont understand how all free markets naturally devolve into monopolies. Yes, governments can also grant monopolies by force, but without antitrust laws literally every market becomes a monopoly.

I used it since netscape navigator XD

The only difference is that, in a free-market setting, they wouldn’t have any monopolical privileges

You cant have a free market without a government enforcing anti monopoly laws.

It’s the same thing as trump in the US, they just say things angry people want to hear, and they get elected and end up being the selfserving lying pieces of shit they always were. The difference in Argentina is all the choices are lying pieces of shit. Yeah Milei sucks but so does Kirchner and Fernandez.

Why would you trust an oligarchy of politicians (the State) to decide which goods are useful “for a community” and which don’t?

Because we voted for them. We didn’t vote for the board of directors of private companies. There’s plenty of waste and corruption in private enterprise. It’s not voluntary if they lie cheat and steal just like bad politicians.

The problem is when crooks privatize these things they steal billions of dollars worth of taxpayer money. Yes Argentina is messed up, but it’s because of corruption. Privatization or socialization, both will fail because of corruption.

Like, private school or public school, they both fail if the principal is stealing money, this isn’t a leftist/rightist issue.

You’re literally the only one talking about buying it, and it’s not YOUR software, it belongs to Microsoft. Your boss just rents it and makes a profit having you work on it.

I think you could estimate by measuring change in subscriber numbers in each system. Maybe you need to measure the change in growth for each? Not a statistician so i cant say how, but i feel like you could get an estimate within a factor of 2?

If they sucked dick instead of going to war, there’d be nothing wrong with that and the whole world would be much better off

On average sure, but putin probably has more than 3.5% subverting democracy for him, it’s not so simple for the people.

android has all those features, and most of the world uses whatsapp anyway

I guess the problem from an idealistic standpoint is fine, let them sue. Hosting an instance is not about being profitable. Do what you need to do as far as shell corporation and all that to protect your personal finances, or just close the instance instead of censoring. The community is just people who will find another instance, it’s not empowering to treat people like they will fall apart if you don’t submit to hegemony.

Now, it’s just an instance that is perpetuating unfair systems of power, instance of helping to democratize the internet.

The phones have wifi hotspot but the carrier blocks it. Yes the phone manufacturers in US allow the data carriers to block hotspot.

No, and that’s why people want a net neutrality law.