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[–] nous@programming.dev 359 points 3 days ago (49 children)

Yen also pointed out how such a court decision could help cut inflation in the US, too, "by dropping the price of a significant chunk of digital purchases by 30% overnight".

I bet most companies will just take that extra 30% as profit rather than giving it back to their users like proton has.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (32 children)

Yeah, even of the companies don’t pocket the difference, he’s an idiot to suggest that this will cut inflation.

This guy is just not very smart, I think.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Interesting that Andy Yen does not have a Wiki page. But Proton says "Previously, Andy was a research scientist at CERN and has a PhD in particle physics from Harvard University." so, I think he's very smart, he's just outside of his lane here.

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