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windershinwishes98 karma

So what, exploitative labor practices didn’t exist before piracy?

Paying money doesn’t guarantee that the person you’re paying it to is doing things right.

windershinwishes93 karma

That's a relief. How are you structuring the business? Sole proprietorship, LLC?

windershinwishes17 karma

Agreed, it's a unique and interesting aspect. Are there really any problems associated with the "dark" perception around crows? Are there people out there slaughtering crows superstitiously? I don't think we need to worry about PR for animals unless it's a threat to their survival. Isn't the world a richer place for having a creepy bird that flies in murders?

windershinwishes5 karma

Thanks for the response on this, it’s the kind of question lots of people would duck. And as a person who does tend to get angry while listening to anything political on NPR, my impression is that it’s more to do with the kind of thing you suggest: certain concepts being totally outside of the frame of reference of the people involved, rather than something that they are specifically opposed to.

Well, except for the Clinton campaign operatives on the politics podcast who got me to stop listening back in 2016.

Part of the issue is also that people have higher expectations of NPR than for commercial news networks. So hearing the same message is really frustrating. But that’s the nature of elite institutions, not just corporate ones.

windershinwishes4 karma

She said "there are so many reasons that adult content is behind a paywall..." and then proceeded to list good labor practices, as if there is a connection.

Consumers stealing from capitalists is not the reason that capitalists exploit workers. They'll do that no matter how much money they're receiving, as long as they can get away with it.