The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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    10 months ago

    If you have sex with, but don’t pay a prostitute, are you stealing?

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        10 months ago

        No because the entire metaphor is built on the concept of prostitution

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          10 months ago

          Prostitutes can’t have a romantic life unless they’re paid to do so? This is such a bizarre metaphor, let’s see where it leads 🍿

          Also: if there’s no consent it’s not steeling, it is rape. It’s really strange to think how because of someone’s profession we recontextualize the act as steeling and not rape. Ie it’s like saying one is steeling from prostitutes while not addressing the fucking rape. This is your brain on Milton Friedman economics - where your body is capital and it has a price.

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      10 months ago

      Piracy is also not at all like stealing services, just as it is unlike theft of real items.

      Not paying a prostitute because you have a sexual partner at home who meets your needs is closer, but also not the same