I agree with pretty much everything you say here. But a thought hits me on the dan luu kernel issue - let's say we fund a team of kernel devs and they reduce TCO by .5% - the nature of FOSS means that the reduction in cost is illusory - all their competitors get the same TCO.
The funding of the kernel team is similar to paying taxes to fund science research ... it's just the more I look around the more I see a vast socialist society we live in that we think is some red in tooth and claw capitalism.
The main value of capitalism seems to be the creative destruction- replacing old inefficient companies with ones newly formed, built
differently.
It's just that if we found a way to close down companies after say ten years and forced them to build new, would that solve as many issues as schumpter?
The funding of the kernel team is similar to paying taxes to fund science research ... it's just the more I look around the more I see a vast socialist society we live in that we think is some red in tooth and claw capitalism.
The main value of capitalism seems to be the creative destruction- replacing old inefficient companies with ones newly formed, built differently.
It's just that if we found a way to close down companies after say ten years and forced them to build new, would that solve as many issues as schumpter?