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On 11/29/2017 11:16 AM, Florian Snow wrote:
Hi,
Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineering.com writes:
Giving up privacy and control to waste time in front of a *game*.
I agree with you that freedom is more important than games. But in the long run, we need to find other solutions than telling people not to use things. Phones are bad because they all come with proprietary blobs, so don't use them. New technology: Often bad, better wait till it's old and better understood. Online services that you don't host yourself: Bad, dont' use them. Games: Usually bad, don't use them. I understand that freedom is important but to most people, giving up games they really enjoy is also giving up some of their freedom and people who use services other people host also feel increased freedom because they can spend their time doing something other than managing a server. So what I'm saying is that we need to be careful not to tell people we want them to lead a live of deprivation.
Happy hacking! Florian
Yes, I agree. The question is, in a society where any new features / ways of doing things are expected at no cost or well below the real cost of creating things, how does society as a whole move away from the resultant need to "monetise" the resulting products in unethical ways?
I guess this is really a variation on the age-old practice of "loss leaders", but taken to such an extreme that it's now expected of every tech product. Combined with 120+ year copyright it's rather hard to come up with a solution other than to just not use the unethical products in the first place, sadly.
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