It always surprises me how humans are utterly willing to deal with products they paid for working against them, not with them, and even praise the products nevertheless.
They do not see the part that works against them, and mostly feel the benefit of doing what (almost) everyone else does. Peer pressure, social validation, etc.
That's how you sell crap to people and manage to make them feel happy.
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle Klaus
Point is, if more people didn't feel the urge to be validated by others all the time, none of this crap would be happening. (Including all the victimization stuff as well, btw.)
I'm still not sure if better education would help, or if not needing this constant social validation is something that you just acquire by yourself somehow, and no amount of education is going to change this. It's a complex matter.
Point is, if more people didn't feel the urge to be validated by others all the time, none of this crap would be happening. (Including all the victimization stuff as well, btw.)
I'm still not sure if better education would help, or if not needing this constant social validation is something that you just acquire by yourself somehow, and no amount of education is going to change this. It's a complex matter.
It seems we can be a victim of our own instinctive behaviour. - which gets used against us, or at least used to the advantage of others!
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle Klaus
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle KlausThere is something to it, yes. However, you better fully control the things your livelihood depends on. About luxury, it's better not to cling to it. It weighs you down. If you cling to stuff serving your vanity, you've got problems.
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle KlausThere is something to it, yes. However, you better fully control the things your livelihood depends on. About luxury, it's better not to cling to it. It weighs you down. If you cling to stuff serving your vanity, you've got problems.Sure, but the reason they (meaning WEF, the lobbying and ideologial training organization for the thousand or so biggest corporations in the world, and the software companies switching to subscription based revenue model) is that they want to keep the ownership, and rent things to you, instead of selling them to you. That is, you will rent things from us, because we will own everything, and you will own nothing. And you will be happy, because if you are not, we'll exclude you from the society.
There is no conspiracy whatsoever here, though. This all only happens because you can easily make several times the profit by renting instead of selling. There is no human goodwill here, just common rent-seeking behaviour.
It has also happened before; just look up history and "company towns". This is all just taking a long step backwards to the era when humans are cheap, and owners are the controlling class.
just look up history and "company towns"
Quotejust look up history and "company towns"Those were/are both good and bad.
I was trying to refer to the ones that paid their workers with slips that were only valid for exchange in the company
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle Klaus
There is something to it, yes. However, you better fully control the things your livelihood depends on. About luxury, it's better not to cling to it. It weighs you down. If you cling to stuff serving your vanity, you've got problems.
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle Klaus
There is something to it, yes. However, you better fully control the things your livelihood depends on. About luxury, it's better not to cling to it. It weighs you down. If you cling to stuff serving your vanity, you've got problems.
Although that's somehow philosophical and highly personal rather than an absolute truth, there's something to it, yes. It's a bit like buddhist philosophy.
But if you think the WEF is in any way buddhist, I would beg to differ.
Another reason not to use cloud-based software like word processors:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/15/1056042/chinese-novel-censored-before-shared/
Yu vill own notzhing, and yu vill be happy.
- Uncle Klaus
There is something to it, yes. However, you better fully control the things your livelihood depends on. About luxury, it's better not to cling to it. It weighs you down. If you cling to stuff serving your vanity, you've got problems.
Although that's somehow philosophical and highly personal rather than an absolute truth, there's something to it, yes. It's a bit like buddhist philosophy.
But if you think the WEF is in any way buddhist, I would beg to differ.
Arguably, religion is subscription based!
Another reason not to use cloud-based software like word processors:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/15/1056042/chinese-novel-censored-before-shared/
Re: Proof that software as service/cloud based, will never work for long term ...
Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have dropped offline due to cooling issues as the nation experiences a record-breaking heatwave.
When the mercury hit 40.3C (104.5F) in eastern England, the highest ever registered by a country not used to these conditions, datacenters couldn't take the heat. Selected machines were powered off to avoid long-term damage, causing some resources, services, and virtual machines to became unavailable, taking down unlucky websites and the like.
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We're told at least part of Oracle's cooling infrastructure broke down around lunchtime, UK time.