My mobile device is a wifi-only junker phone I sometimes remember to use to take shitty pictures.
I went to get a free app in an app store. It asked for payment info. I still do not have that app.
I am the outlier
People are out here wondering why #revolution is not being organized? When will the masters let us use their tools?
https://vagabondexperience.substack.com/p/to-revolt-commandeer-meta
#anarchism #capitalism #resist #developer #apple #google #meta
"I am the outlier"
Correct. Because you are willing to bear a cost to uphold your preferences and principles. That's a good quality to have.
Too many people are out there whining about this or that company doing something they don't like...and then buying from them. How many people "hate" Amazon...but have a prime subscription, endlessly buying luxuries?
Part of the beauty of capitalism is that you can vote with your wallet. The price? People need to be principled to do so.
@AlexanderKingsbury Wow this is one of the best answers I have heard in a minute. People usually just get mad and call names!
I must disagree with manipulative nature of these gatekeepers. The lack of "free market" in the free market.
You cannot vote with your wallet when your device IS society's wallet. What good are principles when vendors do not accept cash?
I do not admire people with a game-score hoarding condition stagnating the economy y'all insist upon pretending is natural or real.
If you want to complain about the markets we have not being free enough, great. I want MUCH more free markets than we have. But, to me, the solution is "make the markets free", not "destroy the free market".
As to vendors not accepting cash...that's a relatively tiny fraction of society. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but even when it does...that's more of a "vendor does not want to associate with me because I only have cash" thing. I generally prefer voluntary interactions.
@AlexanderKingsbury do you go to many live music events and purchase from vendors in the US?
Do you visit coffee shops, small cafes and wherever else paying with cash very often? Holy fuck!
And if so -- did you have any left for the busker working at the corner?
Nearly everything I buy is in the US. I go to very few live events of any kind, music or otherwise.
Coffee shops? Yes. Small cafes? Yes. I've never once been to one that didn't take cash. I see very few buskers.
@AlexanderKingsbury I didn't ask if you believe they accept cash. I asked if you go around paying with cash very often?
no. not with cash exclusively or at all.
and I am not surprised. it is the least convenient.
I go around paying with cash often enough to know how widely accepted it is. "Very often" is a little vague, but I am essentially never outside my home without cash, and I use it routinely.
@AlexanderKingsbury look, I live in the rural south where the cost of living is the lowest and our kids can't read.
I am telling you, ever increasingly cash is not accepted. Even here. I did not say never accepted -- less often accepted as currencies go increasingly imaginary. And 3% poofs out of the economy every swipe, tap and jiggle. Out of circulation into an unused hoard.
Hundreds of articles state the fact that cash usage is plummeting.
By design. Nobody thinks about that 3%
@AlexanderKingsbury My brain got stuck on the 3% that vanishes from the super-real economy every time somebody makes a swipe, tap or jiggle of a doodad...
I am saying the base foundation of the "free market" is not free for any introductory purposes to people with zero dollars and zero credit but a whole bunch of gumption regarding fees and fines and all that.
...cont...
@AlexanderKingsbury ... cont...
It is nowhere, in any sense of the terms a "free" market. It is a monied market and WORKING people do all entirely all the labor and creating.
Come to think of it -- what risk does a "rich" person even take? The rich man loses a digital game score.. the "working" man loses 7 kids because they couldn't afford any of the procedures to prevent kids.
There are sectors of the market that are free, for all practical purposes. When I buy tamales out of a cooler being pulled in a wagon down the street by an old woman....I'm gonna go way out on a limb and guess she doesn't have a license for that. What we are doing is essentially unregulated.
@AlexanderKingsbury that tamale lady can get arrested and deported for her "crime."
How in the world does that look like freedom to you?
That's not freedom to enter the food-business; that's dodging pigs to hopefully make a buck for TP, or her grandkids' pads.
That is the practice of anarchism. That is disobeying the laws that are preventing her from actually participating in the "free" market.
Yes, she CAN get arrested. But she is not (and no, you can't get deported for selling food without a license). Functionally, we are engaging in free trade.
I have no interest in dehumanizing others. Please let me know if you ever decide you feel the same. Until then, have a nice day.
@AlexanderKingsbury you're describing the blackmarket -- not the free market.
there are people currently being deported with NO criminal record whatsoever.
Illegally selling food products without the proper permits would damned sure qualify as criminal activity.
Do you live in the US right now?
People are being held in cages -- old people and babies with no charges and no due process for nearly a year now and prison companies are slaying the profits.
Your nation dehumanizes others.
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