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"Stealing" https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2022/10/26/the-presidents-initiative-on-junk-fees-and-related-pricing-practices/ https://www.whitehous

"Stealing" https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2022/10/26/the-presidents-initiative-on-junk-fees-and-related-pricing-practices/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2022/10/26/the... And those are just the ones that are so obvious the POTUS needed to make a statement. Corporations steal trillions through dark patterns, intentiona obfuscation, mailicious marketing, price fixing, collusion, fraud etc. Every piece of personal data shared between every online entity I have no relation to, or awareness of - is stealing from me. stealing, in this case is a broad, vulgar term. If you don't like stealing - then you wont get any place in successful business it would seem, based on the observable, documented, litigated and governmental precedents throughout history.

127361 3y ago
It depends on who's doing the theft. If it's a high status organization or individual they get away with it, including those behind the 2008 financial crisis. If it's a low status individual, they get put behind bars. It's a dominance hierarchy and those at the top hold all the cards.
- samstave 3y ago
  Where does the notion of "depends" "whom" - lies... (etymology on lies, lay ... it all boils down to, druidic functions of WERD. - And may Holy Wood be of interest - as its Druidic knowledge is scrubbed yet ensconsconced into the fabric of digital reality...) [There is a significant impact on tech with Druidism that is not known]
  - samstave 3y ago
    Programming. Is. A. Formulation. (look at the druidic etymology of SPELLING, CODING. I am utterly dumb-founded (reaching upon dumbness once FOUND the conclusion)... How few 'smart' people understand the functions. FFS, networking was based on LSD. DOS was a hottub LSD session, just like RIP and BGP.
idiotsecant 3y ago
"One person steals so other people stealing is ok" seems like a difficult moral position to defend.

127361 3y ago

It depends on who's doing the theft. If it's a high status organization or individual they get away with it, including those behind the 2008 financial crisis. If it's a low status individual, they get put behind bars. It's a dominance hierarchy and those at the top hold all the cards.

samstave 3y ago
Where does the notion of "depends" "whom" - lies... (etymology on lies, lay ... it all boils down to, druidic functions of WERD. - And may Holy Wood be of interest - as its Druidic knowledge is scrubbed yet ensconsconced into the fabric of digital reality...) [There is a significant impact on tech with Druidism that is not known]
- samstave 3y ago
  Programming. Is. A. Formulation. (look at the druidic etymology of SPELLING, CODING. I am utterly dumb-founded (reaching upon dumbness once FOUND the conclusion)... How few 'smart' people understand the functions. FFS, networking was based on LSD. DOS was a hottub LSD session, just like RIP and BGP.

idiotsecant 3y ago

"One person steals so other people stealing is ok" seems like a difficult moral position to defend.