• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Frog: “Hey, did any of you guys notice the water get a couple degrees hotter?”

    Other Frogs: Already boiled alive

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      It’s why I’m struggling really, really hard not to feel to annoyed with the average consumers that still buy this trash instead of supporting less oppressive alternatives.

      Like, yeah, people should just be able to buy what they like and not have to concern themselves with the overall market trends they’re helping to entrench… But holy shit is it becoming a serious problem. The customers are what drive the direction of the market, but the customers base isn’t just tech enthusiasts anymore, it’s literally everyone, and they are sleepwalking us all off a god damn cliff. By the time they wake up to start complaining about it, we will already be halfway down.

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        By the time they wake up to start complaining about it, we will already be halfway down.

        They’ll be at the “too big to fail” point, where to try to reverse the trend would crash the economy that’s based on selling customer privacy and information.

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      1 year ago

      I’m still alive.

      But only because I ditched Amazon Prime at the end of the month.

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        I left when they started charging $10-11 for whole food deliveries. It used to be included.

        They also used to have Amazon fresh and Amazon pantry delivery, but they exited my suburban area, too.

        So now Walmart+ gets my money.