The market is just people and they decided not to openly revolt against government, tacitly approving it doing the work it’s long done of lifting up the bottom of society no one else wants to invest in.
The majority is not high tech types, nor does it need to aspire to be.
How do you separate this all from physical reality so easily?
Economics is not physics. The math is defined by biologically biased humans. Physical reality works how it do regardless of the syntax you want to emit about sound economics.
You really are just asking questions that have been debated forever. The answers haven’t changed. The narrative you would choose to recite isn’t the same as many others. And westerners aren’t a literal majority
Either one is an arbitrary choice that influences the market.
Why should a supposedly free society be free to accept only how Uber or Lyft might have it?
It isn’t just bureaucrats but the public that votes them in. You’re cherry picking bits n pieces from the broader social narrative to highlight. Why should anyone care what any random poster on HN thinks is just as valid and vapid a question once you take 5 minutes to think it over.
HN is just as knee jerky and shallow as Twitter and Reddit. Don’t kid yourselves folks
The majority is not high tech types, nor does it need to aspire to be.
How do you separate this all from physical reality so easily?
Economics is not physics. The math is defined by biologically biased humans. Physical reality works how it do regardless of the syntax you want to emit about sound economics.
You really are just asking questions that have been debated forever. The answers haven’t changed. The narrative you would choose to recite isn’t the same as many others. And westerners aren’t a literal majority