@aral Personally I always try to read this as a preventive language to avoid scaring rich people. "we are launching a publicly funded resource but we promise we will not seize your privately run ones unless they really fuck up". I want to think it's not that much that the EU desires for things to be a market, than the need to appease private bankers and The Netherlands least they feel threatened.
Notices by Cogito ergo mecagoendios (elrohir@mastodon.gal)
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Cogito ergo mecagoendios (elrohir@mastodon.gal)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 22:47:12 JST Cogito ergo mecagoendios -
Cogito ergo mecagoendios (elrohir@mastodon.gal)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:20:49 JST Cogito ergo mecagoendios @aral capitalism: by seeking increasing profit, free markets converge to satisfy the needs of the people efficiently
everyone who has ever programmed a gradient descent: no it fucking doesn't
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Cogito ergo mecagoendios (elrohir@mastodon.gal)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:05:02 JST Cogito ergo mecagoendios @aral Didn't they also recently descalate their mission, from "made with fair trade materials" to "we'll do a best effort to source fair trade materials if possible", IIRC?