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    The narrow mindedness of colins arguments needs to be broken down.

    #1 Complaint
    Colin listens to a podcast and cringes when the guy tries to make a living.

    Life is transactional. If you guy to the store you BUY food. Does the DJ have a right to make a living? Yes. Do you have a choice to listen YES. If you don't support your DJ, move.

    #2 Complaint
    The internet int he early yes was everything BUT capitalism,

    Oh, so AOI gave away their products for free? Absolutely the internet was monetized in the early days, it was called the DOT COM boom. The concept was the same, people use my service and that adds value to my company.

    #3 Compaint
    The internet sucks because of CAPITALISM

    What are you talking about, rambling about democracy and humanity?

    So you are looking for a society where the majority controls the minority? That's called totalitarianism.

    Now the humanity buzzword is pulled into your deep thinking brain. I guess it's negative that 'humanity' of millions of people across the world meeting each other, and engaging each other is not positive? I have met people from Canada, the US, Mexico, and Europe through the internet. That is pretty cool in my book.

    Or what about the 1000s of non-profits who get to share their cause across the world?

    Or the millions of artists who get to share their work across the globe?

    Or the musicians being discovered on youtube?

    Internet shopping malls are a choice. I didn't go to any e-commerce stores today and guess what, not one site I visited asked me to buy something.

    You are an idiot.

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    • What use is being discovered on YouTube when "Music, they said in effect, was free. But only the musical two per cent could afford to say that."
      ...      Nairn
    • https://www.rootsmus…Nairn
    • I actually don't disagree with most of your point - Colin_s' ire should be more aimed at 'eternal september' and absolute mass marketry..Nairn
    • ..but you can't help but come across as a bluntly predictable apologist bellend for hard capitalism at any, usually social, cost.Nairn
    • everything we have is thanks to capitalism, but a few qbners take it all for grantedhotroddy
    • @hotroddy, who takes it for granted?fadein11
    • those who like to shit on capitalism as a form of moral exculpationhotroddy
    • Anyone here on the internet yammering-on in a man-forum about how capitalism irks them are taking this shit for granted... look in the mirror, guyz.PonyBoy
    • Why can't opinion be met with opposing opinion rather than disrespect and name-calling?MrT
    • Regardless of what capitalism has done to the internet, the internet has seriously fucked up conversation and debate.MrT
    • it's not bw. Capitalism can be great, but left unchecked it bends to greed and the never ending need for more profits.formed
    • Personally I don't take anything I have for granted, it's not about that is it?fadein11
    • formed you qualify profits as a bad thing. you know its not that simple right? that ones man profits mean value for others. bezos profits your ability to shopdeathboy
    • cheaply. profits are the ends of a system that works. as such in a system of no profits you could say no one benefitsdeathboy
    • a null a void, non existence and stagnationdeathboy
    • so would u still damn profits and prefer stagnation or death ?deathboy
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