BenMar 1
'Pay to remove ads' is such an awful insidious now common phrase. Give us money or else we'll do this to you. If you don't pay us, we will control your experience. We will force ourselves upon you unless you meet our demands. Modern day protection racket.
Show threadScale TheoryMar 1

@TheBreadmonkey

When did capitalism become extortion?

When they removed all competition buying, bribing or even a hostile overthrow.

Show threadMorgan ⚧️Mar 1
@SCALETHEORY @TheBreadmonkey capitalism was always extortion. It requires capitalists who get to tell everyone else what to do, and laborers who can't survive unless we do exactly what they tell us. That's the system in a nutshell how it always was, it never "became" extortion
Show threadScale TheoryMar 5

@raphaelmorgan
"It requires capitalists who get to tell everyone else what to do"

But we know this when we begin, it's the sacrifice we take wanting the funds in return. Even if we do jobs we like, we will always be told what and HOW to do something if we're not the "expert."

On the other hand...

Extortion is - obtaining benefit from an individual or group through coercion, usually by threatening them with future psychological or physical harm.

No fed money, as you're blue, ICEIS kills

Show threadMorgan ⚧️
@SCALETHEORY "obtaining benefit from an individual or group through coercion, usually by threatening them with future psychological or physical harm"
I have to work a job or I will either starve or just keep piling on debt until I can't find somewhere to live anymore. If I choose not to play their game, I'm unable to eat or sleep without cops bothering me. How is that not a threat? If we weren't being coerced with the threat of future physical AND psychological harm, capitalism wouldn't work
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