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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 07:24:49 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   Look at this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/481441/what-amazon-wanted-from-new-zealand-s-prime-minister Amazon & Microsoft requesting that Aotearoa NZ's gov't give them special privileges (i.e. a market advantage, even over local providers) because they promise to make a big investment (which, of course, is just TrickleDown Economics, i.e. a myth.). The money they're investing *will not provide long term benefit for Aotearoa or NZers*. It will provide long term benefit for their shareholders. At the expense of local cloud providers.

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 11:35:51 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     These mega-players can afford to loss-lead (selling access to their new Aotearoa-based cloud below cost, subsidised by the rest of their business in areas of the world where they've already got locked-in users to exploit) until the indigenous cloud companies go out of business. Easy. Sorta like the #Bunning business model vs. mom-and-pop local hardware stores.