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1. Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:50:52 UTC Charles U. Farley

   @tedu Looks like a tax on stupidity to me. I'm in favor.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:50:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Jasper (Free Julian Assange!)
     @freakazoid @jasper @tedu Now that commercial service is there, Providing the free service is anti-competitive, undermines the market, inhibits price discovery.
   • Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:50:45 UTC Charles U. Farley

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     • Jasper (Free Julian Assange!)

     @jasper @tedu Why does the company have the ability to remove the free one? Is it private land?

     Lotteries are somewhat problematic because they tend to be largely patronized by lower income folks, while I doubt that would be the case with something like this.

   • Jasper (Free Julian Assange!) (jasper@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:50:52 UTC Jasper (Free Julian Assange!)

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     @freakazoid @tedu

     * Profits go to the company.
     * They have an incentive to remove the free one. (and make more people stupid)
     * They made what whole thing, and now only half of people gonna use it? Seems wasteful..

     Lotteries seem like a more efficient way to do it.

   • Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 22:04:30 UTC Charles U. Farley

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
     • Jasper (Free Julian Assange!)

     @clacke @jasper @tedu This is certainly an argument I've heard capitalists make; my response (as someone who is also essentially a capitalist) is that there is no fundamental right to a business model, particularly one that you haven't already been using for a long time.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 22:05:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Jasper (Free Julian Assange!)
     @freakazoid Under arrest for contempt of business model.
     
     @jasper @tedu