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Comment by makeitdouble

1 month ago

> Google and Apple have more power than most nations.

To push further, Google and Apple have basically as much power as the US.

The UK going after Apple, only to get rebutted by the US is the most simple instance of it. International treaties pushed by the US strongly protecting it's top corporations is the more standard behavior.

Any entity fighting the duopoly is effectively getting into a fight with the US.

> To push further, Google and Apple have basically as much power as the US.

If this is true then why is Tim Cook visiting Trump? Shouldn’t it be the other way around.

  • The power dynamic between the gifter and the giftee isn't that simple. Even bribes dynamics will change a lot depending on who does it and to which amount.

    There is a whole antropologic field around that, but to keep it short, if you pay your palace and all expenses with the money funneled to you as gifts, you're not the one in control.

    Fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy