My dream is for all software to be open source. I'd like to have as a lever when negotiating a company into going completely open, the threat of an effective general boycott.

If enough people were committed to shopping through this market, then it could become a political weapon for those whose recommendations strongly influence the behavior of the system.

Also, as an economic tool to drive commerce away from large corporations.

Break the back of capitalism.

Making it a global market provides mechanism for local commerce to continue.

Imagine you're in a store whose inventory is accessible to this market. You can check yourself out with your cell phone & you funnel your commerce through the market.

Temu, bless its heart, is like looting a storage locker. There's lots of interesting deals, but there's lot of repetition. If people could find those deals through a cleaner interface, particularly one that doesn't just show more & more of whatever they look at.

With the right UI it could shine.

I think a true unified global market interface would do it.

Something ala. Amazon where you're browsing product recommendations and descriptions, but open to the sellers on eBay & Amazon & Temu & whatever, but the recommendations are coming from the whole pool.

What we burn in the fires of war, they are building out in infrastructure.

I'd love to telework from one of your coffee houses. ¿Where does one go now that The Willow Tree is no more? ☕🌳☕