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  • Neato@ttrpg.networktomemes@lemmy.worldShocked face
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    8 days ago

    Corps figured out sustained income was better than marketing and making products. All they had to do was take away every digital product and turn it into a subscription.

    Then they’ll buy each other up until they are an effective monopoly and raise prices forever.

    I don’t see a way out of this for products already captured if you need them.





  • We have never rejected fanaticism.

    The revolution was built on fanatical ideas and ideals of American exceptionalism and where was propaganda to support that.

    The civil was started primarily because the wealthy didn’t want to give up free labor (slaves) but a lot of individuals supported it because they felt the big scary northern government was attacking their homes and they had to defend them and their way of life (still, slavery,).

    Pretty much every war is sold based on fanaticism. The Spanish American war was wholesale created by yellow journalism. The world wars were a bit different because America was very isolationist then and it needed a push.

    Overall America isn’t an exception here. Most humans need to be fanatical to really do big things like war or revolution.