This attack on regulation and the alternatives/solution you offer strike me as simplistic. It's equivalent in spirit to saying,
"The rule of law is too restrictive. We should remove all laws and then people should just not murder eachother and stop stealing. Let's all be nice please."
People will probably always steal and always murder, unless maybe we live in a post scarcity world, and even then it will continue to happen.
And the same applies to companies. Left unchecked, they will always try to maximize their profits and gain market advantages. And market advantages are not productive. In fact they destroy productivity as it's harder to make any progress without the monopoly hand slapping you away. It's not a plot, it's not a conspiracy, it's not that these people are evil (well some are) - it's just that the incentives are there pushing them towards this way of doing business. They'll prioritize growth to satisfy shareholders.
Unregulated companies do uncompetitive things and hinder the productiveness of entire sectors.
I'm not in favour of extreme regulation, but saying that all regulation is useless let's just be nice to each other and make better software is really unconvincing to me.
This attack on regulation and the alternatives/solution you offer strike me as simplistic. It's equivalent in spirit to saying,
"The rule of law is too restrictive. We should remove all laws and then people should just not murder eachother and stop stealing. Let's all be nice please."
People will probably always steal and always murder, unless maybe we live in a post scarcity world, and even then it will continue to happen.
And the same applies to companies. Left unchecked, they will always try to maximize their profits and gain market advantages. And market advantages are not productive. In fact they destroy productivity as it's harder to make any progress without the monopoly hand slapping you away. It's not a plot, it's not a conspiracy, it's not that these people are evil (well some are) - it's just that the incentives are there pushing them towards this way of doing business. They'll prioritize growth to satisfy shareholders.
Unregulated companies do uncompetitive things and hinder the productiveness of entire sectors.
I'm not in favour of extreme regulation, but saying that all regulation is useless let's just be nice to each other and make better software is really unconvincing to me.