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  • Post-covid inflation proved to companies that customers will pay up regardless because they want it and they want it now, no matter the price. Hell, we laughed at horse armor but microtransactions caught on anyway. Voting with your wallet doesn’t work because there are an endless swarm of consoomers itching to blow their money on product.





  • The convenience isn’t worth the downside. It’s just a gaping security hole and data sink for corporations to suck from. Eventually the company will stop supporting the product and you’re stuck having to use an outdated app and maintain your own copy (if that’s allowed). You can roll your own system, but then all that work is placed on you, and for what kind of convenience? To remotely control devices or sync states to provide a minor convenience when it works and a major headache when it does not?








  • hark@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldDevastating
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    1 year ago

    “It could always be worse” is an excuse to never improve things. What’s really ridiculous is your inability to see how much of our productivity goes toward enriching a few and how easy it would be for them to give back tons of wealth they’ve taken from us and still live like kings, plus it would improve the conditions of those people working 16h a day because they’re being exploited by the same wealthy class.