Maybe kindess has to be respected. Otherwise if you behave like a monster all your life, you kind of deserve the monstrosity thrown back at you.

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This comment of yours immediately evokes the idea of the right hand that doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

The right hand is the security theatre that the west is showing its citizens against foreign adversaries who hack their devices and introduce vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile the left hand has been doing mass layoffs and moving manufacturing off-shore ever since the 60s and 70s and trying to fuck over it’s own labour forces to make exponential profits.

Whats funny here is that you guys are bitching about “foreign adversaries” while also handing over the blueprints of your entire infrastructure to said adversaries without giving them anything valuable in return for their cheap labour cost and weak laws.

What did you expect to happen?

I am not chronically online like the rest of the chucklefucks here. I come back when i feel like it.

Hey perhaps you should get YOUR head checked… and hope that nobody is like you when you need some sympathy yourself to get through the day.

Maybe try to reason about why an insane person might do that instead of assuming that everybody is evil?

Thats not the entire story is it? How often is it corporate meddling?

Yes actually. Unlike you I am not ignorant of better examples. You should try to take your head out of your ass every now and then.

Maybe lets not try to pretend that it is just about the costs shall we? I bet MBAs will cower at the suggestion to put up a paywall from the beginning. Afterall, bait-and-switch is their bread-and-butter.

Subscriptions weren’t the norm when we actually paid for something and got the full product. The cost to run things didn’t suddenly become a factor just now.

Only thing that changed: greed of businesses, execs, shareholders.

No need to convince anyone. Trump presidency ensures their will is implemented.

I appreciate you not escalating in response to my snarky comment with more snark or sarcasm.

On the subject: I agree that the system needs to motivate certain behaviors and disincentives others. But from the current point onwards in our cursed reality… I see no way this transition to such a system does not involve a violent revolution/uprising. I don’t see how we can even maintain such a system in the future without threat of violence towards those that put profits before everything else. I believe this because it took violence to take back 40 hour work weeks and paid vacations. Those seem trivial compared to a system overhaul from the current starting point.

You sweet summer child. You think billionaires don’t control things?

No it’s true. A relative of mine is like this as well, unfortunately.

When meta abuses entire countries and skirts regulations… i think a fucking $25 meal card is just petty bullshit.

Stop licking corporate boots.

If you have to defer to the law as justification for doing something purely selfish… then people will judge you to be an asshole.

Edit: Not you personally.

Actually if trump gets elected that plan is going to get shelved entirely. Way worse.

Then its dishonest to accept money for your fake business.

he was focused on ethics

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

Sorry this was my first laugh of the day.

Its quite simple really: if you want profits then you should get it honestly. Otherwise you don’t deserve the profits.