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If you are a publicly traded company who needs to report audited financial results every quarter to shareholders, there are less than 10 ERP software in world for that and Oracle owns 5 of those - Fusion, PeopleSoft, Netsuite, JDE and EBS.

Also, in the last decade a big chunk of their revenue comes from cloud services where these enterprises move away from their physical hardware and onto the cloud. Here also, Oracle provides one of the most generous free limits compared to GCP, AWS and Azure. Also they provide some unique options that I have not seen in any other clouds like Bring Your Own License where you can keep running your old enterprise databases in the cloud with just paying for the compute .

Few years back they also bought out Cerner which was the largest EHR company at that time and it pushed their head count by 28000.

They grew their headcount massively during covid like any other software company and simultaneously took on too much debt to build datacenters.

But with rising cost of these capex builds, they are in consolidation mode and reducing headcounts just like other companies.

Let's say I am a generic linux developer who develops variants of Debian Linux while sitting in my basement in any part of the world.

If one country wants to ban my software because I don't ask for their age, then set up suitable protections for your citizens.

Don't force me to do that. I am not responsible for protecting your citizens.

That is like saying if Saudi wants your id to make sure only males can download operating systems, so now will I add another restriction.

At least China takes it upon themselves to ban sites that they deem harmful for their citizens rather than forcing devs.

Example, In April 2024, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area permitted 7,851 new homes, surpassing the 7,612 permitted in the entire state of California.

There are so many other examples

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mission-district-affo...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-supervisors-n...

It is hard to find maintainers or developers knowing Perl nowadays. Especially in data science related projects as python has been the de-facto tool for that field for some time now.

That way a show hn that pulled all NYC restaurant food items into a searchable list.

In addition they know that the US is a captive market as the government will not allow Chinese companies to sell their cars here due to data and security concerns.

So it does not make sense to chase tiny profits.

When I build backend in flask or Django, I specifically type the python packages that I need. But front end development seems like a Pandora box of vulnerabilities

1 A very high cost of drugs due to no intervention by the government as part of free market philosophy. This means that the same insulin that costs $25 in Canada can be sold for up to $1000 per month. New introduced drugs for Alzheimer's or other diseases can cost up to 50k per year - again because no price controls.

2. Insanely high prices of services due to a captive market - example a ten minute ambulance ride can cost up from $1000 to $5000. The private ambulance companies know they can charge a high base rate because they are connected to a city or municipality via contracts. Bribes as campaign funds are popular here. E.g. a new York based ambulance operator paid 45k in campaign funds to NY's governor elect and got a contract worth one billion dollars

https://www.wkbw.com/news/state-news/report-nysdoh-awards-mu...

3. Overcharging by hospitals for medicines and services again due to a captive audience. The hospitals are free to maintain various price books and you are not told what each service will cost at the time of administration of service. lately the hospitals have been forced to open up their price books but they are so convoluted that no normal human can decipher those prices.

Thus a ten cent aspirin would cost you $25 in the hospital and a MRI can run up to 15k.

4. Very high charges for doctors due to strict control on the number of MD positions and no increase in colleges or D seats over multiple years.

https://www.aamc.org/news/press-releases/new-aamc-report-sho...

5. Insurance companies have a for profit motive and need to extract their profits from premiums paid. Thus they fight tooth and nail to deny procedures and medications and set up convoluted processes for appeals.

6. Extensive fraud on Medicare and other government run health programs especially in durable medical goods and fake billing. In fact one of sitting US senators medical care company was involved in the largest Medicare fraud fines in the US and he still holds his seat.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....

Infact fraud billing Medicare for services not rendered is so popular that even Insurance companies do it

https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/united-states-interven...

Combine all the above factors and you will see why the US consumer gets so little while paying so much for his healthcare.

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