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OrwellwasRight

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6. Agree. Congrats to them, but also ...
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 04:12 PM
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Sometimes good products are replaced with profitable rot.

Remember when you could own software and not have to merely license it?

Remember when innovations were actually innovative and not just new schemes to corner the market on something? Our economy is growing slower because of concentration, not faster…

I mean, these theories pretend “innovation” is always positive. Well … maybe it is for the capitalist class but not for the society as a whole. Economists… intelligent, but always missing the forest for the trees.

Yay!!

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