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[โ€“] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (13 children)

At what point will we look at these numbers with skepticism? When not one worker is left who can afford their services nor one customer left who wants anything to do with their utterly shit "products" - but they still blow out the quarter with 100 billion? At what point will society recognize that this money can't possibly represent anything actually real? Will it matter if all of us starve to death and only billionaires are left if the Microsofts of the world will still be able to post 200 billion dollar "profits"?

I'm actually curious. Because I personally think that's increasingly what all this is. Fake as shit. Some combination of algorithms, cryptocurrency, dark pools and I dunno, the Illuminati I guess.

[โ€“] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

Business contracts and licenses are MS's bread and butter. They don't give a shit about individuals, they know we pirate Windows, and they don't care. But if a business pirates Windows....

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