Yeah break up all the big companies so Chinese state sponsored behemoths can tak...

pocksuppet · 2026-05-06T05:14:38 1778044478

China is competing so well because it has a central bureaucracy that issues 5 year plans and issues money to get them done. Do you think America should do that too, or do you think America and China are different countries with different values?

pitched · 2026-05-06T12:22:32 1778070152

Let’s not forget how much US tech came from government programs like ARPA/DARPA. It isn’t exactly a decentralized bureaucracy. Just hasn’t been hitting as well recently.

henry2023 · 2026-05-06T05:04:32 1778043872

Breaking up big tech would make US markets more competitive, not less.

alehlopeh · 2026-05-06T04:04:46 1778040286

GP didn’t say all the big tech companies. Just Microslop.

scuff3d · 2026-05-06T04:38:09 1778042289

So you're saying the market is weaker with more competition?

starfallg · 2026-05-06T04:05:24 1778040324

Nope, just break up the one that has been consistently found to be abusing their market position. Microsoft has been embroiled in this since the 90s.

Waterluvian · 2026-05-06T04:08:34 1778040514

Honestly not sure I find that prospect worse than the American status quo. At least the Chinese regime is a rational actor.

jimmaswell · 2026-05-06T05:09:16 1778044156

"America is just as bad as China" is not cute or clever; it's trite and objectively wrong. There really is no intellectually honest argument to the contrary. For starters we don't get arrested for saying "Kent State Massacre" - can't say as much for "Tiananmen Square" in China. No matter how atrocious our government may be at times, it doesn't hold a candle to them.