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the cruelty is the point (slrpnk.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The difference is companies generally profit from their activities.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

They'll gladly spend 100k fighting something that would cost 10k, because that 10k is in a different excel sheet that means more than the 100k in the other. They consider it being "smart" and it looks good on paper but makes everything worse for us.