Naw, this been a long time coming. It’s what we call slow moving economic and political development.
Raegen and Thatcher were wrong, new public management was a mistake and “liberalization” really just means “let the finance industry run things - surely what will go wrong?”
So we’re fucking up by not changing precedent set, what, 60-70 years ago?
We could compromise and say materialism rots everybody’s brains.
The Chinese be like: 真的吗？就在我的蟹肉馄饨面前。
That’s just boomers realizing how they fucked it up for every generation to come.
“New public management”? “Job creators”?! “TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS?!” Old man, you’d better smoke two.
Wow, Americans really gonna kill American hegemony themselves. Like “fuck it, you oligarchs wanna fuck around?! Ni hau, mf. Time to find out.”
Trump would sell NFTs of the ash mounds found in LA, then rug pull and move the assets to the Cayman Islands.
If it were up to the lawyers and capitalists and not open source responding to it you’d still be paying to copy files. Imagine that? A subscription for basic utility, and removing it did not “impede competition” or “remove incentive”.
But hey, if you want to, I could rig your phone and computer to pay me a dollar every time you copy or move a file, ya’know, since you’re in to that stuff.
The think tanks working for the robber barons didn’t hit the mark at first, but my god if it didn’t take after a white lol