• @[email protected]
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    461 year ago

    The financial shit heads weasel their way into everything and fuck it up on us. This is what I like about this setup here, from the ground up it doesn’t seem like it can be bought our and IPO’d.

    • @stochasticity
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      181 year ago

      Everything has to be increasingly profitable and it’s maddening.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I don’t want to see humanity keep on going like this. The profit incentive in some ways can increase the speed at which something develops, but it feels like we’re outgrowing it now that we have so many good communication/collaboration tools.

        The profit squeeze on everything feels like it does more harm than good.

      • @MercuryUprising
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        31 year ago

        Because of greed. Not even just the founders, they could even be benevolent, but someone from the competition can just get greedy and attempt a buyout or try to cripple you by becoming bigger and constantly harassing your company. We have to bring back antitrust punishments and ban megamergers that have been running rampant.

      • Temple Square
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        21 year ago

        I know. Like why can’t “we have enough revenue to operate the business” be good enough?

        It’s either go big and go broke for these clowns.

    • @Eldritch
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      61 year ago

      not wholesale. any one of them could spin up an instance and try to monetize it. But they would never be able to shut the rest down or stop them.

      • Temple Square
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        51 year ago

        And if it got really spammy, we can just block that instance.