The leading French economist Gabriel Zucman is urging European governments to inflict financial pain on American billionaires in response to US President Donald Trump’s effort to seize control of Greenland, a mineral-rich island that some of Trump’s rich campaign donors see as a potentially massive profit opportunity.
“Access to the European market—by billionaires and the companies they own—should be made conditional on paying a wealth tax: in effect, a tariff for oligarchs. If Elon Musk, for example, wants to keep selling Teslas in Europe, he should have to pay it. If he refuses, Tesla would lose access to the European market.”
I’m a game dev and I’d love to see nothing more than Apple getting slapped down for what they’ve done to mobile gaming, but this won’t work.
Setting aside how hard bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace is, those of us that currently depend on Apple store placement and goodwill can’t risk pissing Apple off.
In the case of Apple, you’d host your stuff on whatever app store is the most popular in any given country. It’s sort of like F-Droid but for the normies.
What’s really interesting is the thought of jailbreaking your own tractor, opening the possibility to local aftermarket parts. Again, this would take the money from John Deere and open up a local market.
I am consistently disappointed when I hear politicians’ only recourse to anything is taxes. Remember how they were going to tax email to fix the spam problem?
Don’t hide behind fear of change. Just because you can’t imagine a possible future without Apple doesn’t mean no one can and that it can’t be done.