Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

On Wed, 10 Jul 2024, Dave Yeo wrote:

D wrote:

  On Tue, 9 Jul 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:28:05 +0200, D wrote:
 

Except that neither europe nor the US are free markets, so neither can
be used as an example.

 The simple fact is that mobile phones took off in lots of countries,
reaching over 100% penetration in several of them, while the US
continued
to lag behind. What was different? Those other countries used the
Government-mandated GSM standard, while the US just ???let the market
decide???.

 It's true that the cellphone companies in the US lobbied congress for a
number of regulations that stifled competition and stifled the growth
of the industry, such as the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986
which remains a stumbling block for all kinds of things.
--scott

 Thank you for a good example Scott.

>
It is a good example of capitalism in action, using capital to acquire more capital, in this case by buying government.
Why do you hate capitalism?
Dave
>

In situations like these, I always recommend the calm and collected reading of Johan Norbergs The Capitalist Manifesto (https://www.amazon.com/Capitalist-Manifesto-Global-Market-World/dp/1838957928/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=).
Enjoy! =)