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There are many more successful startups than the ones who make the news and become unicorns. Again your talking about big tech and fortune 100 tech companies, not software.

Linux doesn't suggest otherwise, maintainers exist who need to be paid and it's not just "performance", thats silly.

You say excel hasn't fundamentally changed in decades but that's not true. There is still a ton of tech debt in excel that affects real people, some who have left for a competitor. All these people here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/feature-request/m-p/7702 seem to disagree excel was done a long time ago. Clearly you dont work in software and are relying on what software looks like though tabloids.

Thats because you define software by whatever successful startup comes a unicorn. There are millions of software companies that never make a billion dollars. Theyre still a software company making a product that doesn't become free.

Youre also mixing total cost versus margin. Nobody is saying software is more expensive than hardware

"when done drops to zero".

This isn't true at all. Software ages, you need to make it better to keep up with new shit. This isn't a software issue, it's a big tech/monopoly issue. Youre talking about big tech companies.

Other software exists, it's not just Instagram and tiktok.

Youre describing the fortune 100 tech companies, as I said.

Plenty of smaller startups survived, still develop, support and improve their software very far from everything you're describing here. Should maintainers be paid less and less as the project ages?

Software shouldn't get cheaper as it ages. Big tech companies should stop milking monopolies off tax payer funds. It has nothing to do with the cost / lifecycle of software

This is kinda flawed. Most businesses need to recoup their investment, and some upfront costs going away is part of the plan to profitability.

I think this guy is confusing all "software businesses" and fortune 100 tech companies.

Edit: there are ton of businesses that make software, don't become unicorns or make billions, that survive on a product suiting some niche. To say "software companies" take crazy margins is stupid. Big tech is the issue, not software (see linux)

And this is an american. Republicans should be afraid he can change whatever "american" is whenever he wants.

What's funny is his dumb brain immediately went with "What are the costs? I can blame the dems for cost" without even considering the circumstances

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Someone take away his sharpie and weather report.

And not pocketing the money

It's a fallacy to think the loudest are the majority. I'm not saying it's not true in this case, it's just a flawed premise.

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

This is a common tactic the rich use all the time. They even hire people to contest valid charges because it often works. They are literally why we can't have nice things. "So much winning" but they have to cheat and lie about everything.

It's disproportionately the rich who refund uber eats meals that were perfectly fine and shit like that.

If there's no show at all, or it's completely ruined, then you have them cancel the bill. You don't just refuse to pay and stop picking up the phone. That's childish and we know he doesn't pay bills even when he gets everything he asked for, just more gaslighting.

Plus when I hire someone for a price and they do a meh but ok job, i pay them and never hire them again. That's how the free market works, at least in theory. He doesn't see we can't just "not pay our bill" when my internet goes down for a few hours. Normal people get fucked by that, he doesn't know what normal is. Weird they don't even realize they're saying the quiet part out loud.

International trade is complicated. I say US here but almost everyone put tarrifs on Chinese EVs. Germany's economy for example heavily relies on the auto industry, and a collapse could mean a lot of problems.

You also don't want a monopoly. If China are the only one's selling cars, it won't be long before they are no longer cheap. We speak of cars but it's the same for food. You don't want a foreign country to have an economic handle on your food.

It's also worth noting that these other products are often cheaper because the people making them have a lower quality of life. We don't want to end up in a race to the bottom.

Yeah some are still doing their job of investigating and providing reports to the government (and others) to go over. They could just have spewed nonsense on social media and the news without evidence, but that would be weird

Tarrifs means they add tax on specific things to discourage people from buying it. It's used on foreign goods to make them more expensive than local stuff.

If Chinas EVs are cheaper than US one's, american companies could go out of business and China could take control of the EV market. The US will basically add a tax to Chinese EVs so US one's remain competitively priced in comparison

That would potentially make sense. If you ignore the buying power. Let's face it, these huge salaries and hiring their families aren't the things we consider "cost of business*.

I was just saying I find Nintendo are slowrolling devs by waiting till the last minute to sue them. I guess it's to make sure it's a slam dunk