Yeah, me too, but at least I wasn't writing Medium articles about how cool it was that I was generating revenue to be funneled directly into conversion therapy youth camps.
If a tweet takes 30 seconds to conceive, type, and submit, Elon Musk has spent 45 hours of his life tweeting -- no way to estimate how much time spent reading, which is usually a higher proportion for non-egomaniacs. Judging by the way he talks, he could have used that time a little more productively by reading a couple books. Conveniently, also much harder to tank your stock price while doing.
I love how this blatant neoliberal propaganda piece attempts to brand the gig economy and perpetual licensing of streaming content in lieu of CDs and other physical media ownership as "communal" (certainly they didn't mean anything by that wording?) when it's clearly a natural progression of the rent-seeking motive that capitalism is literally based on. "All the bad parts of %ideology% aren't real %ideology%!" Gee, where have we heard that before.
Also great to see them deliberately misuse "private property" when discussing ownership of personal property.
Apologies to the author when she inevitably has a stress-induced heart attack or stroke (or hell, maybe she just gets hit by a bus) and regrets wasting her prime.
The present is all you have. Sorry that you bought in to the propaganda.
Just like you don't get to decide if I download it for free or not, lol.
But for your information, I can and do run userscripts, custom ROMs, jailbroken firmware etc to change the exact sort of thing you spent the second half of your post talking about. You sound like you have a very boring consumerist relationship to technology and the opposite of a hacker ethos.
I love this argument that doesn't attempt to address the fact that these jobs are necessary to the economy and must exist, but jumps straight to the assertion that whoever does them just deserves to be poor.
How generous of the company that made $10b in net profit last year and receives $6b+ of taxpayer funded subsidies every year to spend $400m to offer their workers the unheard of ability to pursue 2 degrees from 3 colleges!
Ah, so you're telling me CEOs aren't individually greedy parasites, but that the entire system is to be blamed? Thanks for the advice, comrade Bloomberg!
So it's all on the end user to go to extra steps to avoid browser hijackers, and the company allowing the garbage ads is completely absolved of blame?
>Complaining about it here won't help anyone.
Unnecessarily douchey thing to post. A nonzero amount of people will read the comments and decide against opening the article/open it in an archival service instead and bypass the malicious ads.