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Apple is worth THREE AND A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

Say that again. Three and a half trillion dollars.

They have cash-on-hand reserves of in excess of $60bn. They could give every single employee $200,000 and still have half of it in the bank.

Tim Cook is a relative pauper in the CEO game, with a net worth upwards of two billion. He could personally pay a team of a three thousand reporters with full benefits and remain a billionaire.

It’s not people refusing to pay for journalism, it’s robber barons refusing to pay journalists.

People always have.

How many people get paid to go to ham radio clubs, to write up plans for model airplanes, or to share telescope mirror polishing techniques? How many people try to profit off of community seed/plant exchanges?

The only difference is that people are now looking for venues to generate profit by producing content, rather than producing content for its own sake. The concept of “every sharing of information must be financially profitable” is a sickness - a festering disease.

Domain names cost about $50/year. Self-hosting can be done for free with most ISPs; and if you’re getting enough traffic that you need to pay for hosting, it starts pretty cheaply.

Profit is destroying community at every turn. Resist the relentless lust to make an extra buck, and ENGAGE with people.

No, you really really really don’t.

I’m old enough to have been online when commercial content was illegal, and I’ve watched as aggressive commerce has crept into every single corner of the internet.

You don’t need to have ads to support a website, you need ads to profit from a website. The idea that everything - information, news, community, society - not only CAN be monetized but MUST be monetized is relatively new, destructive, and anti-human.

The mere idea that you have to choose between two ways of throwing money at billionaires is a symptom of the terminal stages of capitalism. We’re going to have a rough 50 years or so, but this has to end.

Yeah, “good journalism” is definitely what you’re paying for with ads or paywalls.

To be clear, I support journalists - and they deserve to get paid for their efforts.

But (a) OP didn’t specifically mention news sites, and (b) the revenue from websites via ads or paywalls is going directly into the coffers of the ultra-wealthy. Find me a news outlet that successfully implemented a paywall and then started paying their journalists and reporters vastly more money.

You won’t, because they don’t.

No.

What??!?

Mandarin orange slices.

Just saw “The Play That Goes Wrong,” and it is a two hour masterpiece of a play within a play.

I see videos of complete productions on youtube. Go watch one.

Seriously?

Phone the cops. Now.

I used to use a plugin called daily coffee which would open sites on a particular schedule that I would set up.

55 here, and I got to play lunar lander on my dad’s lab PDP-8 even before my grandparents got Pong.

Currently working my way through Fallout London.

I’d qualify that as for-profit mandatory insurance.

Canpt get a mortgage without home insurance. Canpt drive a vehicle without at least liability. Those rates should be strictly government regulated to be sustainable and non-profit.

But if you want to insure your collection if priceless Whitworth wrenches, well maybe I care a bit (Just a bit!) less about insurance gouging.

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Trophy hunting, after all this time, is still legal and big business.

I read it as an anti-circumcision post. You ckuld be right, though.

Canada passed ‘rational servings’ laws a few years ago to this exact end. No more cases where a single-portion package would contain 1.6 servings, or whatnot.

For-profit healthcare.

That sounds like a dream. Last place I worked aa an employee, we got “col” 9which was actually less than 1/3 the government-declared col) plus as much as 1.1% merit increase.

Typical raise for a high performer was around 2%.

I’ve been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is an actual roguelike game.

Egg Inc is angrowth game that’s silly and fun. Squad Alpha is a great casual shooter, and all ads are voluntary. (Note, this is NOT Alpha Squad.)