I think we're going to learn the hard way that widespread rent-seeking is only annoying during sustained growth — devastating in a crisis. Nobody can technically stop you from folding up a handkerchief and wearing it, but get much more crafty than that & you better get a lawyerhttps://twitter.com/balajis/status/1246430440228937729 …
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Software was largely able to jump the fence because regulators couldn't pretend to understand it and it's usually much easier to build secretly and release strategically; it's also harder to make the case that some hypothetical moron would choke on it or set themselves on fire
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You seem to forget about the big war from a decade ago that ravaged software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll …
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Fair, patent trolling is/was egregious. The big difference is that everyone agrees that it's a problem, it's not embedded in the culture
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