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This with dignity? Or do you also ask for handouts everywhere you go?
by behringer 3y ago
This with dignity?
Or do you also ask for handouts everywhere you go?
- lazide 3y agoTaking free money isn’t asking for handouts. Taking free money is (in this case) someone you know handing you $100 and saying ‘merry Christmas’ or whatever. Sure, you could throw it on the ground and say ‘f you’. But these are existing customers who already give you money and are presumably happy with your service.
- wolverine876 3y ago> presumably happy with your service The OP is about billions being spent by people who are not happy but haven't unsubscribed, so that seems like a bad presumption.
- lazide 3y agoSeems like a bad presumption to assume they aren’t happy with the service. Or is taking the standard deduction morally reprehensible too?
- wolverine876 3y ago> a bad presumption to assume they aren’t happy with the service. The OP says they forgot to unsubscribe, which certainly implies they aren't 'happy' with it.
- lazide 3y agoBy OP you mean the article? Or someone else? The article is a typical editorial. And behind a paywall, near as I can tell.
- behringer 3y agotaking free money is in this case like your grandma living on a fixed government pension giving you 50 dollars even though you're 35 making 100 grand a year and keeping it because fuck her.
- makeitdouble 3y agoWe might need nuance, but dignity doesn't pay the bills. It reminds me of the donation drives of Wikipedia who are a microcosm of all this tension. Wikipedia is a genuinely important service that needs to keep going, but boy their marketing manipulative and cringy as hell.