Capitalism will never allow itself to be regulated, this outcome is inevitable. If you don’t like this, you’re recognizing the glaringly obvious problem with capitalism as a whole, it all goes to the top and only gets smaller.

Ok. Say we get rid of the “Money and rich pricks.” What are we left with?

Massive amounts of expensive materials mainly containing oil and still acquired through slave labour. To say nothing of how inherently dangerous they are to drive, and the logistical nightmare that is trying to make roads efficient (EDIT: Let alone safe) for them AND pedestrians simultaneously.

And that’s also not mentioning how much cobalt and coltan the modern deathtraps require, which are exclusively products of the apartheid exploitation of Africa.

From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good.

This one sentence alone is enough to dismiss the entire knob-slobbering article in my eyes.

Edit: A word.

said consumer apathy doesn’t come out of nowhere. consumers are not even most of the problem here. the problem is global capitalism. these companies have been grooming society at large to accept owning less, because we went along with it has a lot more to do with the kind of oppressive systems global capitalism thrives on than any sort of character issue with individual people.

In contrasting perspective, we are now seeing the future companies that have been pushing physical media out for years were hoping for.

There’s some serious irony here. The exact type of irony that is distinct to the people forcing the corruption tool’s existence.

I genuinely am having a hard time believing this because the image looks like it was generated… The kind of reality the .01% has shoved us into.

the creator of Loops blocked me on Mastadon because I said him generating images with AI was ironic.

stay the absolute fuck out of gay bars if you are straight and cis tho