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greenskye
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- on even their own economic rules tell them why it will fail 🙄 in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
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on Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
It’s weird they’re pulling this card this early. You fully expect it to be a thing at some point, but you also wouldn’t expect it to happen until you had no where else to go and couldn’t relatively easily just replace it with a local option.
Did they become so stupid they can’t even pull off enshittification properly anymore?
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on I take a potato chip… and EAT IT in c/animemes@ani.social · 30 Aug 2026
I mean it says ‘nobody should be trusted with it’ but then it gives it to someone most people would agree would be absolutely horrible to receive it and it goes about as well as everyone expects.
If they wanted to prove in it’s absolute corrupting influence then give it to someone like Mr. Rogers and then show how it corrupts even the best of us. There are dozens of better media showing the downfall of a good person with good intentions being corrupted by power. Death Note is a show about giving an artifact that could be an incredible force for good but is instead mishandled horribly and stupidly by basically everyone involved.
Honestly I think a good 40-60% of the population would do a better job than Light did with the power. For one, most people would immediately use it to kill the vast majority of the world’s most evil people before they actually started using it for dumb shit. The show overly focused on small time criminals rather than corrupt politicians and the rich in an effort to avoid shifting the tone into something more political (or simply because politics was less insane back then, I’m not sure). Either way it hasn’t aged well given our current global environment.
The middle class isn’t a natural state of things. You have to work at it to maintain a middle class.
Most of these people want to move back to a feudal self set up again. Where ‘the economy’ is just the nobles and rich merchants trading among each other. They don’t actually care if that economy is overall less prosperous, so long as they are one of the big fish in the tinier pond.
So right now we’re seeing rich people eat other rich people, fighting over who gets to control the dwindling remains of civilization that will remain after their decisions wreck the world.