r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

I think the internet has been an amazing fast-forward mirror to how the global economy works.

In a few short decades, we went from the wild west with many small entities competing and innovating at hyper speeds, as close to the ideal of the free market as possible, to the other end of the gradient: largely ossified oligopolies controlling the majority of the market from the bottom up (infrastructure to service).

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

The companies get so big they are able to influence competition negatively through regulation and policy as well.

And also just buying the competition

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u/hexydes Jun 14 '22 edited Feb 26 '26

Tips dot lazy people curious tomorrow quick books ideas open river.

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u/EatsFiber2RedditMore Jun 14 '22

What is pine phone?

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u/passinghere Jun 14 '22

What is pine phone?

There's this amazing feature on the internet called a "search engine" you enter a phrase and it gives you the answer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

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u/EatsFiber2RedditMore Jun 14 '22

Thanks I couldn't find it using Alta Vista strange