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Couldn't have picked a better time to come up with an outrageously greedy change to an existing service huh

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[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

now as long as we just keep adding on new fees and algorithms to decide the fees and systems to control the algorithms and pay 800,000 technicians around the world to keep it all in check forever... The System Works™️!

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're realy getting to the point where the inherant ridiculousness of infinite growth is getting harder and harder to hide.

[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Capitalist is like one of those childhood games where 2 kids pretend to have superpowers and they keep coming up with new OP moves like "Unbreakable titanium shield!" and "Titanium-melting lava bolt!" and then "Super-lava-resistant invisible forcefield!" each to one-up the last one, except they never stop, we're all beholden to it, and the game decides our paychecks

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

and the game decides our paychecks

the game is causing a mass extinction event and destroying human civilization, too

I really think we should fuckin stop them already