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> Anyone can afford a dollar At the moment I'm unemployed and I'm literally living day to day just waiting for some kind of break. It's easy to say "anyone ca

> Anyone can afford a dollar At the moment I'm unemployed and I'm literally living day to day just waiting for some kind of break. It's easy to say "anyone can afford a dollar" while you sit in your $4,000 apartment sipping a late` that was just brought to you in less than five minutes by any of fifty different food delivery services available to you. But consider that there are plenty of people who have a basic computer or smartphone and internet access who actually can't afford a dollar.

ballenf 9y ago
> But consider that there are plenty of people who have a basic computer or smartphone and internet access who actually can't afford a dollar. Sure. But none of them need a meme generated that is logo-free. If you said you don't have a credit card or other means to pay, I would get that.
tehwebguy 9y ago
The point wasn’t that no one is broke, it’s that even if the price was $0.01 or even $0.0000001 perhaps it would still be priced too high for the actual value.
vintageseltzer 9y ago
That's a pretty rude comment. I'm sure cpncrunch understands that, literally, not everyone on the planet can afford to pay a dollar. Please adjust your tone. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
- SolarNet 9y ago
  People are angry - guy who shops at Ikea twice a weak - corporations steal from them, the government is corrupt, and basic human rights continue to erode in this country. Many of them don't have a dollar to spend participating in the modern web because they are too busy paying for basic human rights, like healthcare, information, and clean water. I would say this to your face. I would say what he said to your face. Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing
  - vintageseltzer 9y ago
    > Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them. Take a breath and relax. No one is oppressing you. I simply ask that you adhere to this community's guidelines and use a civil tone.
    - randomblob 9y ago
      You basically: Please leave me in my elfenbein-tower and keep your rambling about your shitty lives to reddits depression subs. Policy here is to be nice and to say and have nice things. Why don't you have nice things? Sucker... Spot that grain of /s and keep it.
    - SolarNet 9y ago
      It's not about anyone oppressing anyone here. My reference to oppression was as a society and in general, not to this comment chain. It's about you claiming that being angry about oppression - specifically the dismissal of that oppression as valid - is for some reason disqualifying of the arguments contained with in. It's a fallacy, it's called tone policing, and you are doing it.
- phyzome 9y ago
  It's definitely not clear to me that they understand that. shrug
jbigelow76 9y ago
If you can't, or choose not to, afford $1 to generate a gif meme without a watermark then so be it. But the $0-$1 meme market also cannot afford the cost of righteous indignation.
s73ver_ 9y ago
Your situation certainly sucks, but I still have bills to pay. I still have to pay for hosting and content creation and all that. If you can't afford to pay the price I ask, well, then you shouldn't get it. Like anything else in the world.

ballenf 9y ago

> But consider that there are plenty of people who have a basic computer or smartphone and internet access who actually can't afford a dollar. Sure. But none of them need a meme generated that is logo-free. If you said you don't have a credit card or other means to pay, I would get that.

tehwebguy 9y ago

The point wasn’t that no one is broke, it’s that even if the price was $0.01 or even $0.0000001 perhaps it would still be priced too high for the actual value.

vintageseltzer 9y ago

That's a pretty rude comment. I'm sure cpncrunch understands that, literally, not everyone on the planet can afford to pay a dollar. Please adjust your tone. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

SolarNet 9y ago
People are angry - guy who shops at Ikea twice a weak - corporations steal from them, the government is corrupt, and basic human rights continue to erode in this country. Many of them don't have a dollar to spend participating in the modern web because they are too busy paying for basic human rights, like healthcare, information, and clean water. I would say this to your face. I would say what he said to your face. Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing
- vintageseltzer 9y ago
  > Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them. Take a breath and relax. No one is oppressing you. I simply ask that you adhere to this community's guidelines and use a civil tone.
  - randomblob 9y ago
    You basically: Please leave me in my elfenbein-tower and keep your rambling about your shitty lives to reddits depression subs. Policy here is to be nice and to say and have nice things. Why don't you have nice things? Sucker... Spot that grain of /s and keep it.
  - SolarNet 9y ago
    It's not about anyone oppressing anyone here. My reference to oppression was as a society and in general, not to this comment chain. It's about you claiming that being angry about oppression - specifically the dismissal of that oppression as valid - is for some reason disqualifying of the arguments contained with in. It's a fallacy, it's called tone policing, and you are doing it.
phyzome 9y ago
It's definitely not clear to me that they understand that. shrug

jbigelow76 9y ago

If you can't, or choose not to, afford $1 to generate a gif meme without a watermark then so be it. But the $0-$1 meme market also cannot afford the cost of righteous indignation.

s73ver_ 9y ago

Your situation certainly sucks, but I still have bills to pay. I still have to pay for hosting and content creation and all that. If you can't afford to pay the price I ask, well, then you shouldn't get it. Like anything else in the world.