Kinja is a closed ecosystem. If you want to discuss anything on this site, you are forced to use it. There are other ways and places to have discussions though.
Kinja is a closed ecosystem. If you want to discuss anything on this site, you are forced to use it. There are other ways and places to have discussions though.
No, you don’t.
asked & answered you hard-of-reading bad joke of a pretend person...
Did you not read - or even skim - the link I provided? If you want to be pedantic, fine: if you’re not on facebook and don’t have an account, maybe you’re not using it, but facebook nevertheless is “using you” - even people who’ve never used facebook have what are often referred to as “shadow profiles” - they…
You’re bored by the rapidly changing competitive landscape of global business? You deny that companies and industries can and do leave?
How are you forced to use Facebook?
Kinja next.
It’s not about destroying Facebook, it’s about breaking up many of the other services and companies they’ve bought. Warren explicitly mentions Instagram and WhatsApp.
many people do things because they like to, love to, have to (are creative by nature).
And this is pretty much the point - if the business is planning on leaving, they’re going to leave no matter what.
What reasons?
...isn’t reducing its business friendly-ness a bad thing then?
Is this the only place to have discussions about stupid shit?
Manufacturing fled America en masse. Tech is already being shipped abroad. Other industries can easily do the same.
Why would I start the next Facebook in America?
You mean like all the manufacturing we still have?
Yeah, I’m just going to heartily chuckle to myself and call your bluff. Because that isn’t going to happen.
Monopolies should be broken up. Deregulation also creates better products and prices for the consumer.
If that were true the United States wouldn’t have risen to prominance during post WWII era... because no time in US history was corporate and business regulation higher, the essential rights of the Labor movement more recognized by government and business, and wealth distribution was never more equal than during that…
Using a rotary phone has literally nothing to do with efforts to drive out American business.