Aaron
Meredith WhittakerIf I wanted court drama I'd read Stendhal, who understood how power works and spent hundreds of pages illuminating characters whose desire for it blinded them to this reality.
Or, it was Microsoft all along...
Aral Balkan@Mer__edith “A not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” is the biggest red flag. Absolute bullshit (due to the power dynamics; as you state). Basically a for-profit with an ethics-washing PR strategy.
(Mozilla is another great example. A “not-for-profit” that purports to exist to protect our privacy but would cease to exist the moment Google stopped paying it ~half a billion dollars a year. That takes donations while paying its CEO millions of dollars. “Not for profit” indeed.)
Magical Cat@aral And this all gone so far I even doubt it even can be solved at individually, except may be by getting rid of IT at all, and rollback personal life to pre-internet life. Political decision impossible at all because of nature of existing political system.
I an feel sad about that, and I still donating to Mozilla Foundation and Thunderbird, just as gesture of protest.
I an feel sad about that, and I still donating to Mozilla Foundation and Thunderbird, just as gesture of protest.
@koteisaev Well, I’m sure their CEO appreciates your donation, Kote. Five million dollars a year doesn’t grow on trees, after all.
@aral As it all looks hopeless, I just don't know what to do about all this global mess which "should not be a concern of an individual by design".
@koteisaev I hear you, man, I hear you. I guess the only practical answer is we do what we each can in our own little ways and hope that it all adds up.
But, yes, you hit the nail on the head. None of this is a problem of individual responsibility. It is systemic. And while I believe everything we do matters, we must affect systemic change if we are to chart a different (hopefully better) path forward.
David Penfold 
GMate8@Mer__edith Monopoly Capitalism is a conspiracy (and not only theory) against the middle class and lower class. It wasn't clear for me for a long time what is wrong with society, but I feel like now it is more and more clear to me. This for sure one of them ☝️
(I assume this could help us understand it better, however, I haven't looked into it yet, only a bit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_Capital)
John Abbe (aka Slow)@Mer__edith Is this a quote from another piece, and if so would you link us to it?
@slowenough No, this is a standalone statement that I wrote, screenshotted, and posted.