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I have never met or heard of a drug dealer calling their customers for users. Even if that was the case, is "(drug) user" a nice term compared to what else is
by tokai 6y ago
I have never met or heard of a drug dealer calling their customers for users.
Even if that was the case, is "(drug) user" a nice term compared to what else is used - like addicts, fiends, junkie, tweaker, etc. It kind of recognize the agency of addicts, instead of the dehumanisation following the other terms.
- kgraves 6y agoThe 'addicting' aspect of what the tech companies have created and the behaviours they are willing to go to get their 'users' hooked is why the 'user' comparison to 'drug users' makes sense.
- tokai 6y agoNo it really doesn't. Are library users called users because the library preys of their patrons addiction to literature? This is a very weak wordgame, that at best muddies the point about tech companies.
- kgraves 6y agoThere are multiple instances of tech companies exhibiting this 'drug user' behaviour on their customers, I am sure you don't have any examples for your false comparison.
- tokai 6y agoYou are not understanding the issue here. Nobody is saying that tech companies ain't doing bad things. Let's stop this argument, as we're are not having the same argument.
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago>I have never met or heard of a drug dealer calling their customers for users. I've never met one calling them customers or clients either, I don't know that they had any term for them.
- tokai 6y ago>I've never met one calling them customers or clients I didn't wrote that they did. Please read my comment again.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI didn't say that you did. Ditto.
- pmlnr 6y agoYay. I wonder when someone will pop up on Github, demanding "user" to be renamed, because it's pejorative due to that context.