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I think this is why the article is confusing. The interpretation with the least friction is so banal that it seems unlikely to be the intended meaning.

More power to you!

Yes!!! The best part about this is that it significantly reduces the urge I've had for years to do it myself.

> How can we fight against these kinds of extreme privacy violations but still be able to use such facilities?

Historically, mass organizing working people to take political power is the only way.

I wish it were so innocent. In reality it's libertarians literally hard for legalizing their prostitution startup dreams. These people would pimp their mother for a higher credit score, with their mother's consent of course.

> getting real data every action

Libertarians Gone Wild in this thread lmao

If you hold nothing sacred, I can only assume you'd have no problem pimping your own mother? Would you?

I'd like to think human civilization could strive for a bar higher than chimpanzee.

What's the federal interest rate? Minimum wage? Cost of living? Nothing drops panties like desperation!

> Most of the working class is selling the majority of their waking life-hours under the same circumstances, I suppose you see that fundamental foundation of our society as coercion and slavery too if you are consistent?

Yes, but I'd choose another word than "foundation."

> I don't see much difference with a tech worker being coerced to spent 8+ hours a day building repulsive advertising and surveillance technologies to put a roof over their head. People sell their soul, mind and body in different ways.

Absolutely not. Your logic is vulgar. Transactional sex is a vice, so categorically different from software development. Furthermore, prostitution is a vice that undermines intimate sexual relations, both reproductive and otherwise. Family and intimacy mark a frontier of still-sacred relations that capital has thus far preserved in it's own interest. The nuclear family was wrought from villages as the smallest viable mobile labor reproduction unit. Society’s productive capacity straightforwardly depends on these sacred institutions. Software development threatens nothing of the sort. I can only imagine you are drinking libertarian kool aid, also a vice.

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Exactly this. A working American's lifetime capacity to evaluate and fact-check history lessons is vastly insufficient. As a voracious radical most of my life now pushing 40, I am still learning what I don’t know about the basics, and I attend weekly reading groups ffs!

> How could anyone think this was a good idea?

The profit motive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation

Maybe, or maybe they are risking their life, health, and dignity desperate to put a roof over their child's head for the night and you're profoundly ignorant or pretending to be.

Fair point. It is a fabulous means for the pursuit of both profit and power.

The transactional aspect is specifically to compensate for not doing as they please, so what are you talking about?

The utterly debased logic probably involves something like "empowering" the sex workers to report only their least favorite customers.

It must be sarcasm. Please tell me it's sarcasm. It's sarcasm, right?

Your logic is just profoundly short sighted.

Capitalism follows a very simple algorithm. In a capitalist economy, capital always accumulates, with all exceptions being precisely that: exceptions. Are you defending the exceptions or the rules?

Realize there was a very long and quite recent time when capitalism was impossible. By your logic, we should reinstate the divine right of kings.

RSS is good but unfortunately falls short for the building a monopoly use case. Such a shame. If only it were a more adaptable protocol.

> But then why the entire detour with race? Why not just.. well, let poor people come first?

Capitalist societies literally cannot subsist without a class of people living in poverty. At best, that poverty is exported to other countries but it must be somewhere.

> At least its equitable (based on value of output), ofc there are legacy issues as well.

It's not. By definition, it's based on control of capital. That's why it's called capitalism. In other words, those aren't "legacy" issues; they are literally the system as designed.

Capital primacy is maintained by the capitalist state, i.e. the monopoly on violence. This is literally military might.

I don't necessarily disagree with your later points. I do, however, disagree with giving up.

> I think you're really picking that quote out of context

Sure, because it is the meaningless part of what you said and exemplifies the whole softening effort. One can do this softening with any cultural value, and we are all incentivized to under capitalism. This is literally what vaporwave was about. The default Cisco hold music is the greatest vaporwave track because it embodies the brutality of the softening that the subject craves as a haven for comfort in a heartless world. In a sense, corporate purpose-made music is the only genuine vaporwave. This is why vaporwave cannot exist as a living art form. Vaporwave is the art we cannot have. It's the beauty in the brutality. But without the brutality, it's just nothing.

Edit: No you didn't use those words. I was just referencing other comments here and other common takes about vaporwave. I will edit the comment and remove the scare quotes.

Primacy of capital is literally the culprit of the inequality you're complaining about, and the reason you cannot win short of reorganizing society.

> it definitely did lose something where tracks often felt like ideas, like each was saying "what about this? Isn't this weird and interesting?

You can say this (and people do say this) about literally any music genre, and you will be missing the mark every single time for the lowest common denominator. Vaporwave died because of this lack of critical thinking which reads it as merely random or experiments but it wasn't, and of course it wasn't. No worthwhile art ever is.

This is sarcasm, right?

I did not speak out because copyright is farcical nonsense that fetishizes the profit motive at the expense of humanity.

People without a job can't pay their bills. I think it's pretty straightforward.

SP had nothing to do with vaporwave. He was starting a music career, but his album was very good. This was a problem because vaporwave was political music in a post-political world; it was never supposed to exist. Vaporwave was an unlikely and fragile cultural phenomenon, dependent on the ephemeral presence thing. SP just kinda ruined that. Everything after was an imitation; hence why this article acknowledges the Marxism faded.