"Creating jobs" to inefficiently solve a solved task is not a good thing, it is society burning it's tax income. It is only good to create jobs when the output of those jobs is increased value.
Slowing the flow of money out of the public purse and into a very small number of barely accountable global megacorps and private equity funds, whilst improving the employment prospects of the local population, sounds like it's worth the cost of repeat work.
Also, nature loves a bit of redundancy. And capitalism loves competition. You can't have competition under a monopoly.
If there isn't anything generally available that doesn't have telemetry, then productivity software w/o telemetry isn't a solved task. If you accept LibreOffice and the like, then it's a solved task but you'll still need someone to manage it, hence job creation.
"Creating jobs" to inefficiently solve a solved task is not a good thing, it is society burning it's tax income. It is only good to create jobs when the output of those jobs is increased value.
Slowing the flow of money out of the public purse and into a very small number of barely accountable global megacorps and private equity funds, whilst improving the employment prospects of the local population, sounds like it's worth the cost of repeat work.
Also, nature loves a bit of redundancy. And capitalism loves competition. You can't have competition under a monopoly.
> . And capitalism loves competition. You can't have competition under a monopoly.
And the govt. is the biggest monopoly of all.
Somehow, restrictions against US firms are praised but if US imposes restrictions that is condemned (e.g. TikTok).
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If there isn't anything generally available that doesn't have telemetry, then productivity software w/o telemetry isn't a solved task. If you accept LibreOffice and the like, then it's a solved task but you'll still need someone to manage it, hence job creation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window