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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 ... 1y ago

I agree with the mic

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... 1y ago

This really only is

But what is "good"? 1y ago

But what is "good"?

Allow me to rephrase. What is "the good"? Because one would expect that "*good* software" should serve "the good". 1y ago

Allow me to rephrase

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? 1y ago

But you previously s

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... 14mo ago

I learned the rudime