Well and according to metrics, it's also raising the standard of living for the world's poorest, who have been leaving poverty at record rates. It's a shame the evidence doesn't support your narrative. It's such a popular stance that one would hope it was more than a construct of untruth.
"You won't understand it for a few years, you have not yet developed the cognitive capacity and you don't understand the basic concepts. Go watch a Star War"
In the current Internet culture, it's very important to constantly signal to the world that you have the correct political stance. You will often find such people espousing the notion that "everything is political" which is fairly silly, all things considered, but here we are.
It's very important to insist on the correct narrative at every juncture, otherwise people might look into the possibility that those who evince symptoms of mental illness (such as body dysphoria) may actually not be "cured" in any sense by getting drastic surgery.
I've never understood the drive toward some notion of commercial-free purity the gaming world seems to embody. Is it due to the heavy teenage boy presence that underlies so many other unsavory aspects?
I imagine it would be easier to accept your assertion of anti-competitive behavior if it weren't trivial to completely ignore Apple for your phone needs, or if there were some sort of Constitutional right guaranteeing you the Apple phone of your dreams
I have this weird dream, and I am well aware it will never come true, that people will learn how to aim their political anger correctly. There's enough of a problem to be solved and we don't need people muddying up the view of it with rampant misunderstandings based on emotion.
Yeah you can tell the Trump-Russia connections are not a quixotic quagmire by how the stories continue to be filled with weasel words and spend 100% of their column inches not presenting any evidence at all.
It is a point of view that can only be held by people who feel like their opinions on how Apple should spend its money are valid, which is utterly ridiculous in every way that isn't imaginary.
But you're incorrect, and the word "instead" in your original post is what makes you incorrect. We did get "Shakespeare to the masses" for whatever that's worth in general. It's not like his work is some objective benchmark of qualitative excellence - people just assert it is because they learn it from adoring fans during formal education.
Your edit makes me wonder if you realize consciously that your rant is completely orthogonal to net neutrality even with your epplanation, and you're just doubling down on deliberate unawareness as a strategy to avoid feeling foolish.
Viewing the investment as insignificant because the investor has more money is a seriously foolish perspective that ought to be fought against instead of expressed
That was true a decade ago. The tooling has caught up in most languages, so it's trivial to embed your SQL in application code and use it in an environmentally independent matter (eg to invoke in unit tests), provided you take the few minutes initially to set things up correctly instead of the all-too-common "fuck it we're a startup" manner people seem to love.
We all want things, but I sure as shit don't care what giant, rich ad corporations want from my computing equipment. Their needs aren't important to me at all, even though they currently subsidize the garbage fire that is the modern web.
That's actually a pretty great argument that software patents are a good idea for the US, it prevents foreign copycat competition from soaking up the market on us.