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Rate of profit seems to be going to shit.
No one's paying for something they don't get to own outright.
You mean like the Nintendo Switch 2, or any iPhone ever, both of which you can only use if the manufacturer allows you to?
Nobody reads the fine print on anything. I don't own my phone, my movies, my music, my gaming console, my games, my car, nothing at all and yet I've payed for access to all of the above.
Welcome to terminal stage capitalism.
No you're just too lazy to realize what you can jailbreak or download, and align your purchases withthat ethos.
I own all my hardware and can pirate just about anything. Get on the right team.
The "I" here is meant to represent the average consumer, who will die never knowing what lemmy is or what a torrent is.
I am on the team, but it's a very, very small team and it'll remain that way until there's money to be made or a cataclysmic systemic revolution brings order to corporate chaos.
You can't fix capitalism with Linux and tor, you need guillotines for that.