just take credit for fixing the symptoms over and over and over again.
If the goal of the individual is a measurable delta of positive change, then it would be beneficial to the individual to cultivate problems now to solve and get recognized for future accomplishments? It would be much easier to solve a problem that you know intimately, because you were the original cause.
China pushing back on work leaving China. Taiwanese company Foxconn still working to keep the lights on in the India manufacturing effort.
Sure!
Here’s more relatable analogy. Microsoft Office costs about $30/month per user for companies. For our example imagine Google Workspace doesn’t exist. So the “default” office software of MS Office that nearly everyone uses is not cheap, but not expensive. Further, you don’t buy MS Office from Microsoft directly, but through a partner that gives you other discounts and support. Now imagine that overnight Microsoft decides they’re desolving their partner network and you have to buy MS Office directly from Microsoft and also starting tomorrow that MS Office now costs ten times as much at $300/month per user. Would everyone stop using MS Office? Eventually, but you’ve got business you need to do today. Your company can’t even send email without Outlook, which is part of MS Office. So your company is BLEEDING money just paying for MS Office, and there’s no good alternative. So you pay it for now. You try desperately to come up with a plan to use something else, but for now you’re paying through the nose. Companies will take years to identify another product that replaces everything in the company that MS Office is used for and training the entire company to use and support this new product.
Replace the name Microsoft with Broadcom. Replace the name MS Office with VMware. This is what is happening and Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank.
I like the end result that ISPs are pushing back on this, but don’t mistake this for altruism on their part.
Their businesses make money selling internet service. Were they to support cutting off those accused of piracy, they would be losing paying customers. Further, the business processes and support needed for this to function would be massively expensive and complicated. They’d have to hired teams of people and write whole new software applications for maintaining databases of banned users, customer service staff to address and resolve disputes, and so much more.
Lastly, as soon as all of that process would be in place to ban users for piracy accusations, then the next requests would come in for ban criteria in a classic slippery slope:
All the machinery would be in place once the very first ban is approved.
Also with the abandonment of DEI initiatives, there are no longer any protections for Lizard-Amercians.