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Dan Hon

When people say "government needs to get better at regulating tech", the related "government needs to get better at tech to regulate" is just as true, and this inflation/price fixing in Austria is a fantastic example:

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Gamedev MastodonMario Zechner (@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place)Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food. Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
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Alon

@danhon To push back: Germany evidently doesn't have this problem - the thread compares Austria to German supermarkets, which are famously cheap. But Germany is infamous among intra-EU migrants for having poor digital governance. The difference is that there's just much less corruption here than in Austria, and strong anti-monopoly regulations. For example, Walmart failed here partly because its practice of discounting everything in a new store until the competition folds is banned.

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Dan Hon

@Alon this isn't about just price-fixing and inflation, though.

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Dan Hon

@Alon this is about being able to use (and choosing to use) technology as a function of regulation

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