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I’ve noticed that answers have more filler and useless politeness now, but I probably don’t use it enough to notice more than that.

A big part of why big American banks appear financially stable is the ruling class will bail them out with taxpayer money.

Could someone elaborate? What are the new airline miles schemes?

The only choices were Communism or the New Deal. Which are you endorsing?

The second New Deal was a different story.

What was different before Citizens United?

Everybody knows socialism is impossible though. Can't work, not worth trying, don't even think about it.

This is correct. The US has 2 capitalist parties and no left party to speak of.

> The latter one got so complicated that I had to add an integration diagram using the draw.io app.

Amazing that this is offered up as a selling point. If I didn't know I was reading a thread full of emacs users, I'd think this was a parody of a thread full of emacs users.

Incredibly ignorant comment. It won't happen because corporations won't let it. Adobe alone could make Linux Desktop happen tomorrow, but there's nothing in it for them. That's all there is to it.

The US makes almost nothing on its own and I expect you know that, and the US population would be shrinking at a suicidal rate if not for mass human labor trafficking from the 3rd world.

If the US still made things and still made children, it could do a lot better than it is.

Karl Marx insisted people need to relate to the product of their labor.

Sadly, that difficulty is practically the only difference in the distinction. Each share the same crippling shortcomings: those of capitalism itself.

Are you suggesting the corporate interests want that?

I think in fact the corporate interests already get 99% of everything they want and they simply don't care for a cohesive desktop OS.

> I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests

They already serve 99% of corporate interests. A "takeover" would sacrifice the veil of what the propagandized "open source community" interprets as corporate egalitarianism.

The same can be said for virtually any societal change. Want people to proactively fight climate change? It turns out guilting people doesn't work, but give them a dignified existence and they will immediately care about the world they live in.

What is a "pov. point of view."?

These solutions don't block video ads and they require crippling your speed with a VPN.

Yeah everyone can just be a business owner. That'll work out just great.

The 3 story "Privacy. That's iPhone." billboard down the street from me suggests otherwise.

Then how would the phone company executives be able to afford the campaign donations?

Yeah, I don't see how Apple can claim to prioritize privacy when they won't even allow real ad blocking.

The parents have every reason for concern, not because there's something wrong with the principal but because there's something wrong with the society their children are entering.

The parents realize that their children will be screwed if they don't get into a good college, and the poorer parents need scholarships too! The principal's philosophical musings won't pay the bills.

> Are you trying to push the window to make people feel like it is unacceptable to be critical of a company's actions?

I'm trying to encourage thinking a bit more about the circumstances at hand. Hot air criticism is useless an so is economistic (or, Luddite) bargaining. The issue is at the root of how our society is organized. In short, new technology should benefit all of society equally because all new technology stands on the shoulders of all working people and their ancestors.

Wrong. For one, solidarity strikes are extremely illegal in the US, which neuters the ability of working people to affect their own political circumstances. Also, the US congress is always prepared to wage violence to end a strike. However, in the case of an actor strike rather than a railroad strike, they should be expected to support the studios' ability to wait out the strike instead.

> One of the only levers we have to fight back is to call out these abuses and loudly call attention to them.

This is a ridiculous non-solution that has never really worked in practice. At best, it might revise the legal/PR strategies of the corporations and enables even more dishonesty on the part of various nonprofits who ostensibly "support" a related cause. More often, it's simply a big fat waste of effort.

Historically, organizing labor to withhold labor power to win political power for working people is in fact the only strategy that has actually worked. This is not what the actor/writer guilds are doing, though. They are merely bargaining for economistic industry-specific measures, not the political interests of working people as a whole.

It's new territory, and if it plays out in Netflix's disfavor, Netflix can still use AI to generate characters not based on existing actors' likenesses.

Additionally, AI could always be more improved for the script-writing use case.

I don't see what the problem is. This is perfectly legal. Private companies can do whatever they want with their own money.

You left out Prime Shipping. There is nothing comparable to Prime Shipping.

Additionally, mathematics and scientific evidence are no match for the influence of power. The tendency of capital accumulation under capitalism is exceedingly straightforward, but the life of one trying to find peace with that reality is too painful to bear.