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0 pointssunshowers1y ago0 comments

I think trillion dollar companies should not exist. They are inherently destructive to humanity.

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This seems arbitrary. What is the limiting principle here? Should there be no 100 billion dollar company? How about after 50 years of inflation?

saagarjha1y ago

You’re more than welcome to adjust for inflation on that number.

EA-31671y ago

Case in point. If the topic was that, then I'd welcome the discussion, but when you simply bring that to every discussion about Apple... it gets old. After all your statement only really needs to be said once for people to understand it, which makes the repetition over the years very grating. "Single issue posters" are generally the least engaging on the internet.

worik1y ago

Apple is a poster child for why there should be limits on the power of wealth

Closing your mind to the possibility that Apple is throughly rotton is probably soothing, but the possibility remains that we are right, you are wrong, and each time the conclusion is the same, and correct

Big Tech monopolies sniffle innovation and hord resources

9rx1y ago

Apple and the like are only worth as much as they are because of intellectual property laws. Without that, you'd have a million iPhone clones (perfect copies, minus the dumb stuff) on the market a few days later and Apple would soon be worthless.

Intellectual property laws is not some natural law of the universe. It only exists because the people (i.e. the general public) want it to exist. They could do away with it on a whim, but choose not to. Which isn't irrational as it may first seem. Their own careers probably rely on the status quo, and their retirement savings no doubt rest on companies like Apple being worth a fortune, so there is a lot of incentive to not rock the boat.

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sunshowersOP1y ago

I'm not a single-issue poster. I'm an established engineer with a large amount of public writing, much of which has been on the HN front page!

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