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I hate how accurate this is

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if we need to abandon the internet as it currently exists as a whole and start over from first principles and license all the software in such a way that prevents shareholders from profiting. After religion, that's the main thing ruining global society at the moment, is shareholder profits.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What you want is called "ending capitalism"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Interesting.

Go on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds good to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Internet is a network, that is to say, it's hardware mostly. The content on the internet is shittier than ever, for sure. But, getting rid of the internet involves scrapping trillions of dollars worth of hardware.