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Penguin Random House is a predatory corrupt business that the world would be much better off without. If AI means businesses like this shut down I need more „AI

Penguin Random House is a predatory corrupt business that the world would be much better off without. If AI means businesses like this shut down I need more „AI“

2muchcoffeeman 2y ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
- portaouflop 2y ago
  Anything that Penguin Random House perceives as a threat is good and right for me.
  - kranke155 2y ago
    That's an simplification of the world that might help you think, but it's actually harmful in understanding what's really going on. Everything is nuanced. So if you refuse to understand nuance you don’t understand the world.
    - portaouflop 2y ago
      Of course everything is nuanced - but the goal here is not to understand Penguin Random House. It is to make sure that organisations like it that stifle and monopolise culture don’t keep getting more power. If AI is the way to do that so be it.
paganel 2y ago
Honest question, what's "predatory corrupt" about their business? I have some of their paperbacks on my bookshelves and they've been a pretty decent value for money thing.
- portaouflop 2y ago
  Look into Penguin Random house antitrust trial - they’re monopolising culture - which is corrupt and their business practices are predatory
- dartharva 2y ago
  All major publishers are known to be fundamentally rent-seeking entities. Their vast history of litigative bullying and anti-consumer behavior has created a self-serving perception of them as only capable of being high-profile scoundrels. Which means even if there somehow exist some good ones in their current iteration, they will always be evil for many people just by being associated with that domain.
dartharva 2y ago
Scorched earth is never the way.
- portaouflop 2y ago
  Why not? Plenty of examples in history where it was the way - and if it was never a viable strategy it wouldn’t have a name. I’d rather see no one profiting from producing culture than orgs like Random House.

Penguin Random House is a predatory corrupt business that the world would be much better off without. If AI means businesses like this shut down I need more „AI“

2muchcoffeeman 2y ago

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

portaouflop 2y ago
Anything that Penguin Random House perceives as a threat is good and right for me.
- kranke155 2y ago
  That's an simplification of the world that might help you think, but it's actually harmful in understanding what's really going on. Everything is nuanced. So if you refuse to understand nuance you don’t understand the world.
  - portaouflop 2y ago
    Of course everything is nuanced - but the goal here is not to understand Penguin Random House. It is to make sure that organisations like it that stifle and monopolise culture don’t keep getting more power. If AI is the way to do that so be it.

paganel 2y ago

Honest question, what's "predatory corrupt" about their business? I have some of their paperbacks on my bookshelves and they've been a pretty decent value for money thing.

portaouflop 2y ago
Look into Penguin Random house antitrust trial - they’re monopolising culture - which is corrupt and their business practices are predatory
dartharva 2y ago
All major publishers are known to be fundamentally rent-seeking entities. Their vast history of litigative bullying and anti-consumer behavior has created a self-serving perception of them as only capable of being high-profile scoundrels. Which means even if there somehow exist some good ones in their current iteration, they will always be evil for many people just by being associated with that domain.

dartharva 2y ago

Scorched earth is never the way.

portaouflop 2y ago
Why not? Plenty of examples in history where it was the way - and if it was never a viable strategy it wouldn’t have a name. I’d rather see no one profiting from producing culture than orgs like Random House.