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Why not? We the posters are providing free content and views and exposure for a VC fund worth billions of dollars.

Why are we not getting kickbacks?

Because you're doing it voluntarily.

Agree. But, sadly, we live in a world in which so often what is obvious needs to be stated.

Did I hallucinate several years of discourse about volunteer work on the internet should be paid? And that lefty types were yelling about how billionaire corps should compensate volunteer work because they clearly had money?

Something starting from Reddit mods?

I don't know if you read it but I've never heard such a thing and i do read the lefty sites sometimes.

Sometimes but I've never seen commenting counted as work.

Those conversations have definitely happened and while I have no clue what the lefty types settled on, in my opinion such internet volunteers should lose money.

Sounds ridiculous, but yes. They earn "something" via their exclusive advertisement spots here.

I guess the daily active users are something else though.

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