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So the Silicon Valley business model?
Will wikipedia work?
So, we change that by requiring corporations that want to continue indemnifying their owners from damanges become workfare programs and less profit oriented. The current regime sure aint working, and I think it is fair to expect businesses that benefit from public infrastructure have some skin in the societal game as well.
I dont like the recent inflation, but as someone one the upper end of the income distribution (likely true of many HN readers), my life isn't fucked up by it. Merely my discretionary income.
You're not going to convince people of your cause by calling them ignorant. Jesus.
Yeah, this person offers nothing but condescension. Immediate downvote.
Source: am data scientist.
This is one of the many metaverses. Minecraft is a pretty readily available one too. Neither required VR gear, either.
When I was an NYC middle school teacher, one of my students offered to get me all of the weed I wanted, if I could get him some beer for his party.
The illegal, unregulated weed was obviously far more available to him than the legal, regulated alchohol.
That argument doesn't hold.
The grocery industry absolutely lives and dies on capitalism, for example, but it isn't destroying teenage mental health.
Jewish people would like to have a word with you. My grandfathers would too.
...keep shoveling more of it down our throats with no end in sight.
This is how we get to the world of Neuromancer