mako yass comments on A speculative incentive design: self-determined price commitments as a way of averting monopoly

[mako yass]

An argument should probably made that reducing the profitability of tech even in the direction of fairness is bad, for anticapitalist realpolitik technocrat reasons. I’m not making that argument, but someone probably should.

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An argument should probably made that reducing the profitability of tech even in the direction of fairness is bad

I mostly followed this part. (Fairness is vague.)

for anticapitalist realpolitik technocrat reasons.

But not this part.

[mako yass]

Reasons within the genre of “capitalism is failing to adhere to capitalist virtues and that is good, because we are living in a very specific political reality where peoples’ interests are best served by, channelling power towards illegible, fairly unaccountable people who make things”