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That's a lot of text that doesn't address my core question of: why can't Proton just not use the slop box?
Literally nobody is making them . Their CEO could toss their silly manifesto. There's no guaranteed payout from this, and if anything it's hurting their brand. "Because capitalism" doesn't mean anything either, that's just a completely dead-end cliche. Slavery was part of capitalism too. Surely you'd not argue in favor of using it because it was inevitable.
You can have an opinion all day about inevitability, but I hope it's not just a baseless one.
Okay, at this point I'm no longer in doubt that you mean things exactly the way you're saying them. You're not acting in good faith, I'm out.
Hope you have a nice rest of the day, but please do leave me out of it
Surely the simple counterexample ("slavery is inevitable") doesn't bring your entire philosophy down.
Well, perhaps it does.