I feel this in my soul. I thought I could replace a door in a day, but months of fiddling, I discovered by frame is not only a parallelogram but it literally shifts by over an inch between seasons. (~100yr old house 2nd floor)
This is needlessly cynical. Everyone has thresholds, and it may not be tied (at least exclusively) to money. Those that _assume_ that the morals of others are always at whim of financial gain are those that I trust the least.
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Not _my_ opinion, but I just wanted to share that many people (in the Midwest) do believe that anything synthetic that it not readily made from simple materials has "less soul". It's a sorta test of "if I dropped you off in the jungle, can you still produce works of soul? Or are you just another cog in the machine.".
Look, I'm not defending MS, but this feels like such a non-story. Every AI company wants people to love their product to use it as much as possible. EVERY game company every has wanted people to be addicted to their project. The context isn't "hypnotise people to use our AI against their will" but rather within Office products to make their AI so useful that people are 'addicted' to use it for all office work. This seems far less nefarious than the title.