• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Just ban running them on a loss. Maybe even ban running anything at a loss in order to curb competition, etc.

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      6 hours ago

      Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player piano” nailed it in 1952:

      Automation makes factories more efficient, tax that efficiency and give it back to the displaced workers.

      Of course, since then, we’ve been doing nothing but lowering corporate taxes…

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      7 hours ago

      I think that’s a traditional part of anti-monopoly laws, shame nobody enforces those anymore

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        6 hours ago

        Anti-monopoly laws have been problematic to enforce since their inception, because their targets are often as powerful as the government that might dare to regulate them.