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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Prior to this my main complaint was that creating massive overhead on producing anything beyond Etsy crafts makes everything super boring + basic, and progress slow. Creative people have to find a corporate substrate instead of finding a customer
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Ofc now it's a big problem that there are so many institutional barriers to selling physical goods or services that people want, especially if you need to pivot fast. But beyond that, people just don't feel like general-purpose primates. Maker culture never really won the day.
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(That might seem frivolous now, but when you're in a city under lockdown and your entire industry folds, thinking of *yourself* as a job title that no longer exists is a lot less psychologically tolerable than thinking of yourself as a monkey in pants who needs new tools)
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