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It's a chicken-egg problem. The game will only stop once people stop playing it, but people won't stop playing it until the game stops. And you can be sure tha
by wladimir 15y ago
It's a chicken-egg problem. The game will only stop once people stop playing it, but people won't stop playing it until the game stops.
And you can be sure that companies once they have lots of patents will lobby mercilessly to keep the current "game" in place. Who wants to stop playing when they feel they are winning?
Apart from some sudden massive outbreak of sanity, there is no way out.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoBut at least we can try and make them miserable.
- shmerl 15y agoNo, no one forces them to play it. The fact that they play it is a good reason to disrespect them already.
- angersock 15y agoThe fact that they play it, and perhaps incidentally help show how fucking stupid the whole system is, is more respectable than armchair quarterbacking. (and yes, their shareholders and executive force them to play it.)