#rentseeking — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rentseeking, aggregated by home.social.
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I have recently been looking at task and project management software for 1-2 person teams, and am horrified by what is out there. Almost all interesting products are on subscription and offer no possibility of exporting data in a user-friendly format. The thought of having all my organisation and project details at the mercy of a landlord who can modify the product or the rent at any point and offers no safe off-ramp is insane.
#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #Productivity #tasks #rentSeeking
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Why should tech companies pay for the infrastructure work that #BigTelco companies should be doing? This is just #RentSeeking behavior.
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“Policymaking in D.C. tends to favor the established folks with entrenched lobbyists. Such a situation can be unfavorable to the cell-based businesses looking to influence the rules that, depending on how they’re crafted, could spell doom or bloom for the cultivated-meat industry.”
Inside the Battle Between Big Ag and #LabGrownMeat by Andrew Zaleski
https://newrepublic.com/article/171709/inside-battle-big-ag-lab-grown-meat