Have you ever heard of the monkeys and ladder metaphor?

Things need to change. It's great to be skeptical, but not if you're not also optimistic at the same time.

Monopolies are bad for many reasons, not just because arbitrary "rules" or whatever you think is easily dismissed, but because of the opportunity costs that even the owner of the profits incurs. We're not talking about money or status or power, but actual meaningful change of the total composition of their culture & society and the world. They are literally preventing themselves from experiencing a world that gives them everything they can't have now and clamor and hurt themselves chasing after. It's the ultimate irony.

So yes, you should have hope. There is NOT a "good" reason for being a greedy parasite. People have just forgotten and/or been manipulated into believing in fake power. This false faith (fear) is literally what enables these fake leaders like Jeff Bozos the clown to succeed.

Please next time contribute more to the conversation than just whine.

After listening for hours about how they basically made a streamlined design system for any company to use freely, QA began. I raised my hand and when called upon I asked whether or not anyone in the room felt that the companies who would be using it actually deserved it.

The lead dev got flustered the room went quiet for a second before they moved on.

Feels like maybe people are beginning to wake up a bit, I hope.

I stream for myself. I very, very often ban and put my chat in emoji only mode for the very reasons in this article.

I have only ever been rewarded for things I chose to be before hand, as far as I can tell, by my audience or friends.

You should consider the differences between different types of motivations and approaches to audience capture. It would seem the only individuals susceptible to this "unconscious" molding are people who already have unstable identities.

Silencing them is a recipe for a chain reaction / cascade of failures. It is not a winning strategy.

That is the distinction you've seemed to miss here.

Controlling others' behavior is ineffective at best. It's treating symptoms with pain killers while ignoring the source of the problem. It's weak leadership, and, it gives broken people the ability to manipulate the system to hurt others.

Listen to yourself. You are allowing MSM to manipulate the meaning of things in your mind.

You literally just suggested that fact checking in general is bad and should go away. I know you think that everyone is operating under the context of malicious/false fact checking, but that is my point: you all have undergone a paradigm shift in which you allow the meaning of words to change based on false flags and what mentally ill people are claiming is "fact checking".

Stop.

Everyone should be learning critical thinking and fact checking. Uneducated and vulnerable people need to understand this and see the difference between someone else doing it for them, and they themselves being able to see clearly what is happening to their lives.

Not to mention not everything is shipped from seller / manufacturer to you via Amazon.

This is comical.