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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I paid for Netflix, cancelled it and got Disney+ instead when they cracked down on password sharing. I am more than happy to end my subscription to Disney and go full pirate, I don't care and I live in Canada so I'll never face repercussions.

I'd love to support the creatives but seeing all these strikes it's not like the execs are paying them livable wages anyways. They complain about not making enough money on streaming then vote to increase just the executives pay by insane margins annually, I can see through your deception execs.

If you are going to hoard your wealth so will I, and when the economy dies cause we are all hoarding our pennies I won't feel bad for you while you look up from the bounds of the guillotine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The insane greed is something I simply can't comprehend. Isn't there a point at which it's enough? It seems almost like a mental illness. Indefinite growth and infinitely increasing profit margins aren't possible. There's a limit to value and possible revenue. I don't know where all of this is going, but it can't be anywhere good, and I'm sure it will be violent. I seem to be in the minority, but I absolutely believe there is a point where a person has enough wealth and doesn't, perhaps even shouldn't, have more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Infinite growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My thoughts exactly. It's all devolved into savage economic darwinism. Giant corps won't stop until they own literally everything, and even then, it likely won't be enough. It truly is a cancer on society. It's not like I want to abolish capitalism, I'm no tankie, but when does the greed stop? There's a reasonable limit somewhere, but apparently in the minds of the corporate overlords: