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  • I think it is because we humans are not rational.

    In a free market society, over time, every seller would charge for their service as much as they can. And the service they themselves use, will in turn charge them as much as they can.

    This would be an optimal system, if only humans were rational creatures. When prices for a service increase too much, we should stop using it and go for alternatives, which would create more incentives for competition to grow and prices to come down etc.

    But i think, we don’t think rationally. Sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we still do it cuz of lack of self control or other reasons.



  • I like to think that there are two versions of this “hard working elite”. 1. Is the worker and 2. Is the owner

    When these people are working and no doubt they work hard as a worker they enjoy their pay for their work. They are considered a proletariat imo.

    But they also enjoy the surplus from the work of their employees. And this version of them is the bourgeois.

    We can commend the worker side of them (for which they are already receiving a wage) while at the same time condemning them for the owner side of them.

    Because at the end of the day, any surplus the owner is getting because of being an owner is exploitation of the workers.





  • India and russia are far far closer than india and usa/west. When the partition happened with india and pakistan. India was approached and aligned with soviets and pakistan by usa (as a response) thats how pakistan became a major us ally in fighting soviets in afghanistan then afterwards pakistan started getting close to china. After which us and india’s relationship became strong.

    Now the situation is changing again. Pakistan is getting more pro us/west while india is getting more closer to russia.

    Its a bit funny how much you can tell about geo politics just by reading the narrative in US media.


  • These are very loose terms. Pretty much every major website saves IP addresses when you create an account (to prevent abuse/spam detection). And you can get location info from the IP address. Hence the first condition would be true for all of those websites.

    Next, any website/app that builds a recommendation system will save user interactions to build the “algorithm”. So every social media with an algorithm will fall into this category.

    With enough bending of terminology, we might be able to prove that the lemmy also collects user data (although it will be really hard cuz the algo here is based on upvotes and time posted iirc). And “large amount” part is just legal filler words.