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in thread "Why don't people realize that 'high software profit margins' are fugazi?":

I agree with the microeconomic framing of marginal cost, which in competitive markets will tend to be close to the sale price. As a rough example, the price of a taco should depend more on that additional tortilla and meat that went into it than the fixed ... 13mo ago 22

I agree with the mic 22

This really only is a guess for them. For the rest of us, it is probably that software is new. We haven't yet adapted to how to think about it in a governance context, especially one in which software factions are taking on many of the traditional roles of... 13mo ago 22

This really only is 22

But what is "good"? 13mo ago 22

But what is "good"? 22

Allow me to rephrase. What is "the good"? Because one would expect that "*good* software" should serve "the good". 13mo ago 22

Allow me to rephrase 22

But you previously said that there exists software that has worth. Surely then, that software would serve some generalized form of the good that you believe in, would it not? 13mo ago 22

But you previously s 22

I learned the rudiments of this framework in >>1466 in introductory economics, though my formal training is not in economics and I am not an expert on this subject. The development of the theory is generally attributed to Alfred Marshall in his work, Princ... 13mo ago 22

I learned the rudime 22