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0 pointsd0gbread5y ago0 comments

I said "voters are discussing" and you said "representatives are idiots". I'm not sure you're hearing my POV. Stupid questions and ineffective historical decisions or not, are you suggesting we just throw in the towel based on a snapshot of our government? Can we not vote in better representation once the population tears into these issues and better understand the outcomes we want?

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scarface745y ago· 2 in thread

Yes because out of all the issues that voters care about. I’m sure “breaking up big tech” so you can put an emulator on an iPhone ranks above (hopefully my list equally hits conservative and liberal talking points):

- gun control

- health care

- unemployment

- “The War on Christmas”

- “those evil immigrants who are taking away your jobs”

- banning straws so we stop killing fish

- free college education

The fact is that the only reason $BigTech is $BigTech is because people voluntarily use their products - especially Apple that has a minority market share and charges a premium. Everyone knows how much money they give Apple/Amazon for their products - unlike Facebook and Google.

d0gbreadOP5y ago

But everyone does NOT know how much data they hand over and how that's used to stifle competition, innovation, and has attributable impact to many of the other items you list - and that's what's being vetted right now. No one has issue with high revenue, that's the reward for winning. We're discussing HOW you win, and if that needs modification.

Most people I know are more than capable to read, learn, and form educated opinions on everything on your list as well as this topic.

We might be at a stalemate here since you won't be convincing me the discovery process into these issues isn't worth it, and I'm not sure I can convince you to not judge an entire nation by its lowest common denominator, be it extreme left or extreme right, which is what I'm drawing from your previous comment.

scarface745y ago

Well, we have statistics. We all know how most people vote.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/244367/top-issues-voters-health...

Where do you think the following issues rank in the list?

Facebook/Google collecting data. Especially in the case of FB where people willingly give it data.

Amazon - effects on small retailers (disclaimer I work at AWS)

Apple -

A) taking a 30% cut when most of the money comes from play to win games.

B) Or that you can’t sign up for subscription services in the app

C) you can’t sideload. People have been fine with buying through iTunes/App Store since 2003.

We know that many people on the right are single issue voters - religion, gun rights , abortion. There are probably many single issue voters on the left. The only one that I can think of is “not Trump”.

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