Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?
Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?
I’m not familiar with “manifesto of the parasite,” but I can guess what it refers to. And yes - they are parasites, in the purest sense of the term, and correctly and justly recognized as such.
And yeah - I don’t really fault people for condemning capitalism, since it is an especially destructive system, but I do fault them for too often taking the position that these sorts of things are exclusive to capitalism - as if, if we could only eliminate capitalism, all of the problems would vanish. The problems are more fundamental than that. They’re a function of institutionalized hierarchy, and capitalism is just one notable system by which hierarchies are established and institutionalized.
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not every “capitalist” society is a US style degeneracy
Although I’d argue that they’ll all end up more or less that sooner or later. It’s baked in.
But I’d also argue that that’s the case with all systems by which some come to hold greater power and/or wealth than others, regardless of the details. The mere fact that some can hold greater power and/or wealth than others sooner or later leads to abuse of the system by the most determinedly greedy and power-hungry, and the least constrained by ethics, principles, empathy or integrity, and the system is ultimately degraded for their immediate benefit regardless of the harm done to others or to the system itself.
And 'round and 'round it goes…
No doubt but I would prefer to be in the denmark or Swiss stage of the cycle… What we got in US is just too rough and it is getting progressively more fuck faster and faster…
In last 10 years the hope got squeezed out of vast majority of population. And nobody is even shilling a trend reversal.
Oh, no doubt.
Analogously, systems like Switzerland and Denmark are like stately and well cared for cars. As they age and little bits here and there break down, they get ever closer to their inevitable end, but it’s a slow and halting process.
The US, on the other hand, is like a gigantic SUV/limo that somebody slapped together in their back yard, and that the Musks of the world drive the shit out of without bothering to even lift a finger to do the tiniest bit of maintenance or repair.