You’re can’t have one without the other.

The Chicago school promoted unfettered access to power for companies, they’re complicit in the companies using that power to influence the government to do unhealthy things like defang antitrust regulation.

To use your stupid analogy; if you take your car to the mechanic, and the mechanic tells you that your car doesn’t use oil, then it is the mechanic’s fault when your car breaks down.
Here the mechanic is the Chicago school, you are the govt, and the car is the market.

“that’s not real capitalism” seems to be the new “that’s not real communism”.

Capitalism gave unscrupulous people the power to do bad things. It is ignorant to try to absolve capitalism of this.
Capitalism is a tool to concentrate wealth and power, it is absolutely shocked Pikachu when those people use that wealth and power to influence the government to do bad things.

You’re claiming both that the government is the problem for not stopping people from doing bad things, and also you’re saying that the Chicago school was right for pressuring the government to remove their ability to stop people from doing bad things.

Eclipse che was, afaict, the first to really make major progress in this space.

Vscode and codespaces basically stole the whole thing… But then they actually provided it in a way that was easy to use.

So while I don’t like the theft, I think that the result is great, and I don’t like that OP lists it as something nobody wants.

Most cable companies have competition prohibited by law.

And how do you think laws like these came into existence? Capitalists accumulated power and then used that power to influence the government to protect their business.

You’re so close but for some reason you refuse to accept that business can and does influence the government.

But beyond that, the regulations we’re talking about were anti-monoply regulations. Despite you saying that the Chicago school is anti-monoply, they pushed to defang regulations that combated monopolies. Your justification is that regulations create monopolies, but you provide no reasoning why defanging anti-monoply regulations would reduce monopolies.

That lack of intervention is what created the conditions
Capitalism naturally moves towards monopoly. Government regulation prevents monopolies. Capitalism accumulates power. Capitalists use that power to influence the government into letting them accumulate more power, until they have enough power to remove the regulations that prevent monopolies, then the capitalists form monopolies, then we get the very situation that we’re describing.

Ok, I think we’re not really disagreeing, we’re just fighting about language.

Yes if you follow the directions and pay close attention then you won’t end up with burnt popcorn.

But a lot of the time the directions specifically say not to use the popcorn button, when you really should, so in that case following the directions will give you what you want but there is a much better way.
When you said to actually follow the instructions, I thought you were more or less blanket agreeing with that part of the instructions too.

So I think we were talking past eachother for a bit there.

Jokes on you, us pendants are actually immune to humour.

Sort of.

I was trying to highlight the clear inevitable outcome, rather than highlight who to blame.

Maybe I misunderstood.

Whan you say “follow the instructions”, which instructions are you saying to follow?
Instructions on the internet, instructions on stovetop popcorn, or instructions on microwave popcorn?

The Chicago school opposes monopolies and bailouts, but they support the conditions that inevitably lead to monopolies and too-big-to-fail companies.

I feel like you stopped reading after the sentence that you quoted. Here, let me repeat the rest for you

If your microwave has a popcorn setting that uses sensors, is almost always the best option. Some use humidity, some use a microphone, some use both.

They have sensors to detect that for you. Sometimes using literal microphones

Why are you including codespaces in there??? That’s a feature I wish more open-source projects made use of. Pristine working dev environments, on demand? Yes please

Surprise! The system of accumulating power was used to gain power to influence the government to let them gain more power to influence the government to let them gain more power to influence the government… Ad infinitum.

Government regulation of capitalism is fundamentally impossible in the long term, unless you lock it down early into something barely recognizable as capitalism. That ship has sailed long long ago.

“that’s not real capitalism” now, huh?

You call it “socialism” because it’s failing, but there isn’t anything socialist about it; it’s just late stage capitalism. Capitalism is a system of concentrating power, and this is what happens when you concentrate power.

It wasn’t capitalism in the same way that “it wasn’t real communism”.

Sure, I guess maybe, but it’s the inevitable outcome of the processes that define capitalism. Just as all kittens become cats, this is what all capitalism becomes.

I am opposed to the inevitable outcome of my policies!

So they all funnel money to the top.

Are you suggesting that capitalism funnels money to the top slower than other systems? Or that when capitalism does it, it’s somehow less problematic?

Because what else is your point here?

But that is the inevitable outcome of capitalism.
It’s like saying “the problem isn’t kittens, it’s cats”.

Technology concessions did an episode on this. Those instructions are for the lowest common denominator of microwaves.

If your microwave has a popcorn setting that uses sensors, is almost always the best option. Some use humidity, some use a microphone, some use both.

I’m actually thinking of the sociopolitical ramifications of both scenarios here.

I feel like if physical attraction between species was common, then we’d end up with crazy purity culture, no matter if they could procreate or not; because members of a species would see a sharp decline in the population of their species in the younger generations, as most couples were either unable to produce offspring, or produced offspring of a new species.

I’m curious what an animal that was like 1/16th 16 random animals would look like. With so much selection, would everyone tend to the average of all animals after like 10 generations? Would we end up with a single blended specie? Would it reduce into a handful of different blends that achieved critical mass?