The profit motive is also the source of enshittification.
Meanwhile Steam is successful by just not trying to squeeze every last penny they possibly can out of you, and they have a massive grip on games. It's almost like you get more money by not pissing off the people giving you money
Whilst also ignoring the fascists in their forums, and allegedly firing all their moderators who could deal with such problems.
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Not really. People like discussing video games as much as anything else. It would be nice not to have to put up with fascists and other bigots whilst doing so.
That's the one trick capitalists forget about. Happy customers are usually returning customers
Edit: Also free marketing because of recommendations
Getting out of the next quarter mindset is very hard for corpos.
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I've never done anything with a profit incentive in my life
...and it's becoming a problem. 😭
I honestly struggle to understand people who say stuff like this
Like, do they honestly not have anything productive they would choose to do if they didn't have anything else taking up all their time? What do they envision they do with themselves?
We're humans, humans innately get a kick out of building and creating things, that's the human nature part. When we don't experience that, it's usually down to having the energy ground out of us from our current work or die existence.
They understand - they have hobbies too.
What they mean is, THEIR businesses won't be productive without desperate people to force into labor.
Problem is, no one wants to lay concrete if instead they could be playing violin.
I don't even think that's necessarily true. Sure I don't want to lay concrete all afternoon in the blazing sun just like yesterday. But if I had the opportunity and material and could wait for a nice day, I'd totally redo the side walks around my neighborhood three squares at a time. And then go play the violin (ukulele).
I think you'd be surprised. Lot of people like doing things like that and are more put off by the conditions we ask them to work in.
No one would work fast food or retail, but that might be ok.
Even that would happen.
In the Freedom Town debacle, the Libertarian dream^tm^. Where everything was profit -centered. They had a problem with trash because nobody wanted to do that no matter how much they were being paid.
So the town had giant trash heaps everywhere, which attracted bears. And everyone moved or died. The end.
Yeah it would, it just wouldn't look the same. Looking to pre-capitalist societies you find people still making and selling things. Are they doing it for money? Yes and no. An Ale house for example was literally just Ale being sold out of a person's house and that person would change on a rotation as it was made and sold by different people. This was for like a community service than a profit based business venture.
Wdym no one. Like, that's bascially how ancient civilisation do stuff, no profit, just building.
How many concrete pours did ancient civilizations do though?
We're not talking about "pouring concrete" in a literal way though, right? What i take from OP is people don't express themselves with hard labour work when they can do it with easier stuff, which is completely wrong, because one, people build big stuff for fun all the time, and two, people can and do actually do both.
Would I be wrong to say this is true for most research too? Seems like a missed opportunity not including that.
Free clipart man is basically responsible for every single sign in Japan.
I’m with you on this. But if(“true”) makes me want to murder people.
Maybe its just a simple way of turning a feature on and off during development
Yes, like eventually there will be a variable toggle, but for now, we just need it to run until Control+C.
Good eye, looks like that source code image is AI-generated, it looks like no programming language I've seen before. It looks closest to a weird hybrid of COBOL and Javascript.
My apologies for unintentionally exposing innocent people to that, I was not aware.
Trust fund kids make even better test group for this
Firefighters still charge you.
Volunteer firefighters charge you? I mean sometimes they ask for donations I guess.
In belgium the personal statute of the firefighters themselves doesn’t matter for the eventual invoice. Some services are paying, other are not (yet). They get compensated for their time though. Who the fuck would not compensate them for their services? I nearly lost my father a couple of times and I practically never saw him growing because he was so invested in that… imagine that for free…
I agree that it is absolutely worth funding fire departments and paying the workers! In the US we have both "professional" (paid) and volunteer (unpaid) firefighters. The volunteers are almost always in rural counties. They have other, unrelated jobs, and are "on call" in their free time (they carry around a radio).
Well so are our volunteers :) They have daytime jobs + firefighters by night or on the weekends. And they are paid / compensated for their hours in the service.
Yours are not?!
The fire department I volunteered at charged you for stuff like car crashes. A few weeks ago I got a bill from the fire department for a car accident I caused. Maybe it's a European thing? The fire department does get funding from the country and from events they host (that's probably just an Austrian thing)
Still, considering the spirit of the post... were you paid out of that money?
But not to enrich themselves.
All of these reward you with status among your peers.
Yeah, we all know that WIKIPEDIA EDITORS are the highest of the high in status, so many famous Wikipedia editors such as;
And don't forget
So much status
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Wikipedia editors have a lot of power to influence the narrative on lots of political topics.
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