> "A company making it slightly annoying to leave an agreement with them is not being preyed on, exploited, or abused. That kind of language to describe "sittin

> "A company making it slightly annoying to leave an agreement with them is not being preyed on, exploited, or abused. That kind of language to describe "sitting on the phone longer than I want to cancel my paper subscription" or similar is bordering on histrionic." This is replying to an objection about forests by saying "how could one object to a single leaf?". This other comment by someone else describes it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41875283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41875283 Company behaviour is sociopathic psychological manipulation. Having to legally force companies to let you leave - if that was a personal relationship that you couldn't leave without the government forcing your partner to let you out of it, it would be an abusive one.