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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Dedicating Ruckus @ded_ruckusReplying to @MorlockP"right to repair" ends up spilling over into almost all electronics, and ends up basically gutting corps' ability to sell closed-down stuff, plays into Doctorow's tech-freedom angle which I'm sympathetic to, but it makes the "oh, the poor farmers" frame disingenuous2 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
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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
$X * sell premium model for $2X It's called price discrimination. It allows a vendor to get extra dollars out of rich customers, and it allows more modest customers to get good value.2 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
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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