Platomus @ Platomus @lemm.ee

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No, the accounts were paid for.

Yeah, the OP post cares.

The post itself is saying it isn't.

The users were playing for the service tho.

They then created artificial barriers to charge more for the service.

They've been doing it consistently.

That's a myth. Bartering wasn't really a thing as it's presented in most lower level history classes.

Most civilizations dealt in community sharing before currency was invented.

It wasn't a case of "I have 3 chickens for your 12 loafs of bread." It was more like "I grew more wheat than I need this season and my neighbors goats are producing more milk than they need. If we put it together, we both have a nice meal."

You're currently full of bad takes, aren't you?

That's just reiterating the same thing without expanding on it.

How could you explain it better for an argument then?

That feels like a scapegoat argument. That reduces down to "bad things happen when bad people do bad things."

You can argue against anything when you say that.

"Dentists should be outlawed because some dentists have abused their clients " Isn't a fair argument either.

Just because it has a chance to happen doesn't mean it's an inevitability.

Feels like an example of confirmation bias.

I'm not even saying I agree. I think privacy is important. I'm just playing devil's advocate for the OPs question.

We live in a post scarcity society. It blow my mind that more people aren't screaming that from the top of their lungs.

We could have automated trains delivering food to every corner of this nation - but instead billionaires launch cars into space and build death tunnels to nowhere.

The couldn't the person just cite all the times that hasn't happened?

Because they're put in an economic system where if they aren't - they starve.

"people starve because CEOs want an 8% return on their capital" doesn't change anything about this.

Food isn't scarce.

It also describes a lot of the US' police system.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hnzFfJUteTo&feature=share7

States Rights had always been a smoke screen.

Even during the Civil War Southern States were trying to implement laws that gave them power over other states to give slaves.

States Rights had always been right wing propaganda designed to hide their true motive. Same a "protect the children." Same as a racist hiding behind "free speech."

My family became very Anti-Vax during that time. My wife and I had just had a newborn about a year in to the pandemic and demanded everyone get their vaccines before they got to be around the baby.

My parents didn't get any and didn't see the baby for a while.

Then when we did start seeing them, they had completely lost their minds. Blatantly racist, blatantly homophobic. Even when it wasn't things political, it felt like they had forgotten how to properly talk to people in an appropriate way. My mother made comments about my DAD having relations with my wife and that the baby wasn't mine.

I know they watch Fox, I know my mother watches a bunch of far right-wing YouTubers. All of it has led to them barely being functioning adults.

And with how easy it is to look things up, it could just take moments.

There's a lot of people who are actively avoiding being wrong though - they know they'll be wrong, so they never want to look into anything.

When I was a teen I worked as a waiter at a dirty smokehouse/bbq place.

One of the kitchen staff there would make sexual comments about me. Say things like "You're lucky you look good because you're so stupid." And would ask what kind of underwear I was wearing.

I told my parents about it, and the advice they gave me was "Deal with it. You need a job."

Within a month that kitchen staff member had started to grab me and sexually assaulted me.

I don't talk to my parents anymore.