As long as piracy is easier than obtaining something legally, I'll continue to do it. I stopped pirating music, because Spotify is much much nicer to use and gives a better experience overall. I stopped pirating games since steam is nice. I almost stopped pirating movies when Netflix came out. Only pirated some extremely niche stuff. But now I'm back in the high seas, baby!

[–] IsThisLemmyOpen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 years ago (19 children)

I think I'll be pirating until the economy gets better. And I don't mean wall street, I mean when the average person get paid enough to have extra money for entertainment stuff. Aint nobody gonna pay for a netflix subscription every month or $70 for a game that could still have bugs, people got food to buy, bills to pay.

You want less piracy? Simple. Just give people a higher quality of life.

[+] Aux@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Mate, 95% of the world's population lives in worse conditions than US, what higher quality of life are you talking about?

[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you might not be from the US, or live in a bubble here. All around me are people on the verge of homelessness, who can't afford basic medical care, who work multiple jobs to afford rent and food, who can't afford daycare for their kids while they work. There are plenty of places where things are far worse, but there's also plenty of places where things are far better. Most western european workers get way more time off, unions, better medical care. Brazil has free medicine. China has wayyyy cheaper (and just as good) medical care. Granted these places have other problems, but I can't say that the US has anywhere near the best quality of life for an average worker.

[+] Aux@lemmy.world -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm from Western Europe. Housing is much much more expensive here. If you're on a verge of homelessness in US, I have bad news for you.

In any case, billions of people can't even dream of US quality of life. That's just a fact. Your medical care might be expensive, but you have it, most people don't have access to modern medicine at all. Hundreds of millions don't have access to clean water. I don't think you understand how people live elsewhere.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even if what you're saying is true, and nowhere exists on Earth where there is a high quality of life, it doesn't mean we shouldn't aim to get there.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago

You can aim for whatever you want, but how's that's relevant to the discussion?

[–] Emptiness@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This in Western Europe? I live in northern Europe and have traveled a lot throughout all western Europe. Where the heck is this squalor you're talking about exactly? Please be geographically specific.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

I live in the UK. What do you want to know exactly?

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It is much worse here in Latin America where you have European cost of life but Latin American wages.

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