[Kalium]

> Google search was incredible? Ad sense let publishers earn money online? Great. Then let's reward them for that instead of letting them take 60-70% of the ad publishing market.

This one sticks out among your examples - that dominant position and the profits from it is the reward. How else would you have a reward work?

This isn't an idle question. Right now companies are doing things that generate their own financial rewards. What other way would you have it work, beyond just some notion of differently?

[rglullis]

They achieved the dominant position thanks for their work. They maintained it by buying DoubleClick.

[foobarian]

Not being nationalized could be a mighty reward.

[Kalium]

My possessions were not nationalized at least a dozen times yesterday. It hasn't changed my behavior much, nor that of any company worth mentioning. Perhaps your life has been different from mine.

The absence of a major punishment is not a strong reward. It provides no incentives except to avoid the specific things that produce that punishment.

[tomoyoirl]

I’m uncertain on what terms any European nation is going to nationalize Apple, Google, Tiktok, etc. (Is there to be conquest first?)

Because it’s not clear you’re limiting your ideas to the jurisdiction where the DMA applies, I’m only marginally less uncertain about what terms the US would use to nationalize TikTok, and wondering whether the proposal for nationalizing the others - that is to say, taking private property for a public use - would be attached to just compensation (because the trillions involved would surely dent the deficit), or whether there’s some refined subtlety of the case law on Constitutional principles that I have missed or has yet to happen (e.g. trashing the whole takings clause? hard to be certain).

That is to say: this proposal is quite difficult to take seriously, as it implies, but does not identify or engage with, some rather striking changes to the world that would have far reaching consequences.

[dotnet00]

"The beatings will continue until morale improves" is not meant to be a serious guideline.