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The entire debt-based economy is based on extracting more dollars from "consumers". This is also part of the reason for DRM for example.
by yuhong 8y ago
The entire debt-based economy is based on extracting more dollars from "consumers". This is also part of the reason for DRM for example.
- dcgudeman 8y agoGet rid of debt! Abolish banks! No more loans! No more debt! Everyone has to save up money before they can do anything! That will fix DRM somehow!
- bopbop 8y agoIt's the As-A-Service model - the idea that software not only shouldn't be free, but also shouldn't even by run by the client. It's a pretty fundamental renegotiation of the terms of ownership. On better days I see it as a last gasp by entrenched interests to re-establish the landlordism of old now that compilers are free.