2/ Hayek's "knowledge problem" is Catholic social-con "subsidiarity" is me thinking that Brits don't know what's right for Americans, that Londoners don't know what's right for farmers, and that Cory Doctorow is wrong about almost everything.
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5/ I'm a (hobby) farmer, I'm a tinkerer, I'm the kind of guy who rather than throw away a broken $60 chair from Staples, cuts out 1/8" steel plate, drills holes, breaks out the taps and dies, and fixes it. ...and I ** HATE ** "right to repair".
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6/ It's a very marketing savvy term. ...but it's not what it sounds like. What you THINK it means: "I should be allowed to fix things" What it ACTUALLY means: "no one should be allowed to have trade secrets, many business models between consenting adults made illegal"
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7/ Here's a very typical business model: * sell base model for
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8/ It is mathematically proven that it creates value in the world. Further, it is a matter of human rights that customers and vendors should be free to negotiate contracts as they wish, without Cory Doctorow declaring some of them to be illegal.
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9/ Example #1: Morlock Publishing selling ebooks for $6, trade paperbacks for $25, hardcovers for $50, limited edition hardcovers for $125, and leather bound hardcovers for $250. Upper middle class people get collectibles, and modest consumers get subsidized (and I get $$$ !)
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10/ Example #2: John Deere sells a tractor in three models: * dumb * basic GPS nav * advanced GPS nav with hands free operation modest farmers get a cheap model, rich farmers get bells and whistles. To implement this, perhaps Deere puts the same circuit board in ALL
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11/ ...and disables functionality in two of the product lines. Right of Repair means that John Deere has to document their ROMs, let people know the diagnostic codes to turn on and off features. ...which REMOVES your freedom to negotiate a contract w John Deere.
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12/ If the marxists like Cory get their way, and Deere is unable to do price discrimination, Deere will either (a) remove the top-end features (b) remove the bottom-end price point (c) redesign the models to use different circuit boards (more expensive)
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13/ another business model: selling documentation. "Everyone gets the car for $20k, but the mechanics manuals cost another $2k". Sounds fair to me. (a) docs cost money to generate (b) if mechanics want it, they can pay for it. Business decision / investment. But...
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14/ "right to repair" interferes with this. Some variants require firms to write docs that don't even exist yet. What an insane hassle.
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15/ So, as is typical with progs, the "right" is no such thing, but is a set of obligations that they create and drop onto someone else, and they are happy to fine or jail anyone who disobeys. They won't kick in doors or levy the fines. They'll use your taxes to pay thugs.
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