Most civilised countries consider that a number of things, including electricity, are a public service and therefore heavily regulated to avoid this kind of issue. Letting the market sort it out is only great if you don't care about the common good.
Even if I go back to the 1990s and boxed retail software, you were never actually buying the software, your purchase was for the license to use it.
If that were true, copy protection would not exist and software companies would not care about software piracy or about the right to do a personal backup. Your statement is too simplistic for this discussion.
What you say sounds nice but it's not true. Start here https://www.cfr.org/articles/u...
Oh I agree that the time that kids spend using Meta products needs to be reduced or eliminated. I also think that it's naive to believe it can happen without involving Meta to some extent. Just like reducing drug trafficking reduces drug consumption. The metaphor doesn't have to be 1:1, it just has to work on the point being made. Point in case: if nothing changes in what Meta offers and how it offers it, kids will find a way to access it, even if we tell them not to.
Would you make the same argument about kids using heroin, just stop using it?
For context: one major issue with social media is that it's addictive, and Facebook in particular has made efforts to be as addictive as possible.
Those are all goals that we should aim for if we want to prosper, even if they are not immediately reachable. One step at a time.
I don't think anyone mentioned capitalism until you did. I don't think this is about capitalism versus socialism. The society we live in has privatised profit and nationalised losses. Poor people pay for the externalities of rich people so that they can stay rich no matter what. That's a problem.
Do you believe democracy is working in capitalist USA? Whose interest is Donald Trump representing? What about Congress? Or are you arguing that the USA is a socialist country?
History shows the Communist, Islamist and Socialist can not co exist.
Not sure where you're going with that. History has shown that Communists and Nazis cannot coexist. History has also shown that Islamists, being the religious traditionalist right-wing extremists that they are, cannot coexist with many people, that is not surprising, they essentially hate everyone who is not them.
As for Communists, they can absolutely coexist with others, in fact they do in Kerala for several decades now. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Communists, but get your facts straight.
They decided to overshoot by going too far to the left with the Palestine bullshit as if it matters to the 340 million Americans' lives.
Not sure what you mean with that, but: US aid to Israel is in billions every year, and that money is coming from the taxes that the 340 million Americans pay. Just for context. Have you been complaining about how these billions in taxes could be better spent on US health care than on helping Israel do what it does?
It really is funny, I wish I had mod points. The right is all about rationalising at any cost rather than questioning their belief. In fairness, that's probably most of us to some extent, we just don't realise it. This reminds me of this flat earther who came up with a valid scientific experiment and said "if I observe X, my belief is wrong and the earth is round". Inevitably and unambiguously he observed X. His reaction was then "I must have done something wrong, I will do a bigger and better version of this experiment". Some people just refuse to stand on the shoulders of giants.
The idea that people are mainly motivated by profit or selfishness is dogma, not fact. Our capitalist societies rely on it and encourage it, but it doesn't mean that it is an immutable truth. There's plenty of social experiments that show cooperative behaviours emerging. The environment matters. The fact that the environment we have makes it seem easier or more logical to be selfish is something that we should question, and be willing to amend.
I don't think that's accurate. Trump is an authoritarian, no question. But fascists actually have a vision for society. A fucked up one, but a vision nonetheless. Trump really only cares about himself.
They're hated for being a Jewish state, both by Leftists and mohammedans.
No, they are being criticised for committing ethnic cleansing and apartheid since their creation, and now genocide. This is a legitimate criticism. Making it about the hate of Jews is a weak attempt at avoiding accountability. There are plenty of Jews who are critical of Israel. By the way, using "mohammedan" to talk about Muslims makes you look stupid.
Entire industries have been built by people discovering products, services, books, games, and tools they genuinely wanted through advertisements.
Can you provide an example of that happening?
Also your whole point is somehow made invalid by the existence of Wikipedia.
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