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to be fair amazon has revenues of 700 billion a year. apple is like 400. You can tax the profits down to nothing but like, we can't all get iPhones if apple is worth 1billion. im not even sure if they can make an iPhone with 1 billion.
I think the individual 10m is fine, but like, apple has a billion customers. im gonna lose all my photos if they are worth a billion dollars and no new phone. billions of people trying to get a product now, it makes sense that some companies are worth trillions. regulate and tax the shit out of them.
This is some weird mental hoops you are going through to reach that conclusion.
You have to imagine a world before enshittification , where interoperability was a thing and your media wasn't held hostage behind a gated platform.
I was in a world before enshitification I vividly remember the hopes of the 1990s. Watching hand held cameras get into the hands of the masses, expanding art and culture of the time. Watching that turn into YouTube and regular people getting paid to entertain regular people. I remember all the dead promises friend. Supply chains are too complicated to place an arbitrary market cap of 1 billion dollars. it doesn't make sense when companies now serve billions of people. I'm not going to be able to open up a small business of producing iPhones. That requires an insane amount of resources that you probably cannot fathom if you think a billion dollars is a reasonable market cap. I just wanted to point out that a lot of things you enjoy wouldn't exist in this imagined rule.
So id love to hear how you reorder the global economy and supply chains under a "1 billion dollar company max valuation" How do you get things like iPhones and server farms that hold a billion peoples data?
I'd just like to bring Immich (Self-Hosted) and Ente (Service or Self-Hosted) to your attention as ethical alternatives to Apples walled garden Photo storage. Hope you have a nice day :)
Thank you! I'm working on ditching adobe and apple currently. one day I'll be a real linux boi. I have hard drive space just no time to do the transfers and file hunting. If I wasn't over worked, underpaid and exhausted I would have used a better example. An ASML lithography machine costs 400 Million dollars. So idk how anyone is going to produce chips and be worth less than a billion dollars. OP example needs better numbers. Saying companies can't be worth more than a billion dollars screams: "I don't know how anything I enjoy is made!!!!" vibes.
Yeah I totally hear you on the time thing. I think the stuff on Apple Photos should be relatively easy to import to immich and ente just based on a quick skimming of the guides. But like you said, having to find the time is understandable. I wish you luck on your journey to becoming a real linux boi, lol
Your original example made sense I just wanted to share something in case it was helpful, your new example makes sense too though :p