Ahh yes, I should be worried about how they could in the future, do something while my current government can make me a fucking slave, legally if they decide to.
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Oh yeah? https://www.irs.gov/publications/p936
The IRS says you can deduct the interest on your mortgage but I can't deduct when the rent goes up? Mortgages are usually fixed rates that stay about the same always while rent is constantly going up.
Other platforms with ads haven't really seen people move off those platforms. I feel like once it reaches that critical mass of being nearly ubiquitous it takes a massive problem to push people off of it. Look at SMS in the US and how it's refused to die compared to other markets because it has reached saturation and now the only challenge to that ubiquity is iMessage who basically lives off being a fake SMS service.
But if it's averaged for a year and you only subscribe or whatever in February it's less than the yearly average for a month.
There are plenty of services that you might not have for a year though.
Totally agree. I'm not trying to say terms should have no meaning but that the difficulty distinguishing the two can be pretty easy because of how similar they are.
In capitalism as long as there isn't a way to keep wealth from passing down each generation it is effectively just like nobles. I don't see much of a difference between the two if both are systems of inheriting massive land or assets that allow you to exploit the lower classes to perpetuate your status.
It's meant to be an evolution of feudalism as the people creating capitalism are effectively the remnants of power from feudal society. There could be absolutely no industry and it would still be the system the non-royal but powerful would select.
Look at the transition from the articles of confederation to the US constitution and the focus on the creation of currency in article 1. The "rights" people talk about were pushed for by the opposition to the constitution. The US constitution created effectively a capitalist version of the British empire and is analogous to the house of commons/lords/king. There was no term for the presidency, it could be for life and federal senators weren't even voted for.
I'd argue it's effectively just an iteration of feudalism.
Capitalism is just feudalism with more steps, of course as capitalism completes those steps it will feel like feudalism. Wealth can't grow infinitely yet in the attempt to do so our basic needs have been withheld from those who need.
I keep waking up against my consent.
I'd argue most of us are older but not too old to remember what the internet was as well.