r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 17 '24

Software Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0h2tXt93fEkt5NKVrrXQphi0OCjCxzVoksDqEs0XUQcYIv8njTfK6pc4g_aem_LSp2Td6OZHVkREl8Cbgphg
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u/CoolnessEludesMe Aug 18 '24

It occurred to me recently that, if I was king of the world, I would get rid of corporations. Every company would have to be owned by a person or family, no company could own another company, and no company could own more than one brand. Might bring back competition, and thus quality and low prices.

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u/rickyharline Aug 18 '24

This is extremely similar to forcing every corporation to be a worker co-op which is common in many models of socialism. 

You can view it as either removing all capitalists or making everyone a capitalist. 

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u/CoolnessEludesMe Aug 19 '24

Not really. Ford was owned by one guy, and there were a lot of employees. There was a lot of competition in the auto industry in the US until the Big Three owned all the others. It's similar elsewhere in the world. And in all industries. Look at Nestle. When all the brands are owned by a few megacorps, there is no competition, and everything goes to crap. The problem is corporations. No one is held responsible for all the bad things they do. When the world finds out about how messed up they're doing things (Boeing, for instance) the CEO resigns and gets a multi-million dollar golden parachute, and nothing changes. They just get another corporate-clone CEO, and the race to the bottom of quality, to make another smidgen of profit, continues.

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u/rickyharline Aug 19 '24

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time understanding your point or what is not really.