What if we all started billing the big businesses under influencer services any time we discussed or mentioned them explicitly? π€ͺ
Whatever happened to just doing stuff because it was fun, or because being helpful was the right thing to do, and not worrying about how to prevent other people from somehow making a sliver of a penny off of it without recompense? Why care that someone might be able to find some way to make a tiny little bit of money off of it?
For what it's worth I generally agree with you, the proposition is to prod at where one might go if one were to take the capitalist mindset to a logical extreme. It's not so much that someone might, as it is that an already profitable big business might. Nevertheless, the exasperation you're expressing here, I share, and I've sort of inverted what you ask here out of dismay at how one's supposed to go about things without serving to further help some big business' profits.
Obviously the better and more practical solution is to leverage governments to break up pseudo-monopolies, regulate and tax businesses, and support unionization in every industry. However, this sort of twisted scenario I'm asking about here? That, to me, seems like the bizarre sort of logic that a staunch, honest capitalist would prefer instead despite it being to the detriment of society.
If someone else is getting rich then they feel like that must be making them poorer somehow. But thatβs not how the world actually works. Itβs entirely possible to create value without taking it away from someone else.
Just caught this in your other reply and decided to address this here. While this is possible, it also isn't how the world actually works that this is consistently the case, and it is in those inconsistencies of value production that influence the mindset of others, don't you think? Supposing that it is strictly a zero sum game is wrong, but supposing that wealth accrual isn't sometimes at the cost of others is also wrong, I think it may be reasonable to say.
Wealth accrual often creates economic inequality, and in turn while the original action may not directly make people poorer, it can cost them in other ways of which I imagine we may all be too familiar.
Isn't it more that that was the original point of word of mouth? When I've asked others how they've found out about new music/movies/games, some have also said through word of mouth, hence why I mentioned it in the OP.
Regardless, I agree with your conclusion, and on my worst days I feel we've already hit that point when trying to reach out to others only for it to be a setup for some scam.
Ooh, I didn't realize that's what chinchillas look like! I was going to guess a quokka, which it turns out is only similar in terms of also being a relatively small furry creature with a fun name π
What is this creature, and does he have a name? π
I'm outside the weboth, would it happen to be the one that isn't a sacrificial altar-design?
Shall the Sphinx of Black Quartz Judge My Vow?
Might it be better in future to screenshot the post, quote the text and cite the author/poster, supposing one wants to avoid any linking to Twitter?
Ah, so a zipper boner?
So now what are your thoughts on the subject? π
I was surprised she wasnβt aware of jean penis but she didnβt believe me when I said that
...What is jean penis? Is it just that bulge you can spot when pants are tighter/well-fitted?
How's the pudu du(ing)?