I don’t know about other countries but that’s absolutely the case for the US.
The culprit is the AMA.
> In the 20th century, the AMA has frequently lobbied to restrict the supply of physicians, contributing to a doctor shortage in the United States.[10][11][12] The organization has also lobbied against allowing physician assistants and other health care providers to perform basic forms of health care. The organization has historically lobbied against various of government-run health insurance.
30 seconds of serious thought would tell you that your observation is wrong.
Again, a news organization can just change their robots.txt to block google from indexing their site.
They don't do that because that would instantly kill all their search traffic... and most likely kill their business.
If CNN changed their robots.txt to stop being indexed by Google, Google would literally lose 0 users.
> I wasn't picking a side as much as earnestly asking how OP concluded that its the news sites wanting something free from Google versus the other way around.
It's been explained to you several times. Instead you're more interested in acting self-righteous (it's honestly pretty cringeworthy).
> while real applications have seemingly gotten worse
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure I agree.
Modern day applications are doing far, far more than they were 10-15 years ago. Much more traffic, much more data, much more tracking (unfortunately), etc.
> Everyone should dislike Elon Musk. He's a horrible person and needlessly rich. The man has sociopathic tendencies. We just have to listen to his ethos to determine that.
Thanks for telling me what to think.
> But it is not designed for "depression-like symptoms". It is designed for acute depressive mood disorders and suicide ideation which cannot be treated by other means, similar to electroshock therapy or TMS.
This feels like using the internet in 1996 or the iPhone in 2010. Not quite there yet, but you can clearly see that this is going to be massive within a few years.
Tesla was close to bankruptcy where it needed to massively ramp up Model 3 production (and prove that there was demand for electric cars) in order to succeed. Tesla was the most shorted stock on the market and almost every hedge fund manager thought it was going bust.
Musk takes a pay package where he gets no salary or compensation if Tesla stock doesn't increase. For every $50 billion dollar increment in Tesla's valuation (Tesla was worth $60 billion at the time), Musk would get 1% of Tesla's outstanding shares at the time.
Basically everyone calls the pay package ludicrous and laughs at how ridiculous the deal is (no one thinks Musk will make any money).
Tesla manages to scale up Model 3 production and prove there is demand for electric cars.
Tesla proceeds to 10x (something very few people expected) and Tesla shareholders are massively rewarded. Every tesla shareholder is thrilled.
Musk makes $56 billion dollars but Tesla's valuation increases by $550 billion.
A tesla shareholder with 10 shares sues and says Musk's pay package was too large.
An activist judge agrees and now the lawyers want to walk away with $6 billion dollars.
Yeah.... summarizes the state of the US pretty well.
If you spent 5 seconds looking at statistics about crime, cartels and drug use in Medellin vs cities in the US, you'd see that quality of life is significantly worse in Medellin.
That’s the view of the government?