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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • No, I’m arguing against direct quotes from you. Unless you yourself are a strawman.

    Post about it on the internet built upon tech enabled by the said class

    Built by academics to share research, expanded by hobbyists and enthusiasts, and taken over by megacorps. Not “enabled” by billionaires.

    , from devices sold to us by the said class

    Technically true, but only in that billionaires own the workers.

    , in our homes with comforts the existence of which wouldn’t be possible without the said class.

    Untrue. People can live in comfort without the existence of billionaires.

    Then go to work using infrastructure and means we wouldn’t have without the said class,

    Untrue. This is what your taxes pay for. Transit infrastructure exists without billionaires. Even in the US, notoriously a horrible place to travel, public transit infrastructure was good until billionaires lobbied against good infrastructure so they could sell more cars. Car infrastructure costs you more than public transit.

    likely doing work we wouldn’t have without the said class.

    Possibly true in very specific cases where your work provides value only to billionaires. If your work provides value in any other way (eg providing services or goods), this is likely not true.

    Perhaps go buy some food the likes of which we couldn’t dream of having access to without the said class.

    I am fully certain you don’t really believe good food only exists because of billionaires. Has there ever been a civilization of any kind which hasn’t had chefs of some description?

    Maybe indulge in a hobby - a leisurely distraction, the kind that only exists because the said class engineered a world where you have time and resources to waste on frivolity, while they decide what those resources are.

    Hobbies have always existed. You have time and resources to spare because of unions, not billionaires.

    You credited all of these things to billionaires. None of these things exist because of billionaires.




  • I think the issue you’re having is that you’re treating them as categories and subcategories, like most things it’s never that clean. It makes much more sense if you treat them as unordered tags. Arcade isn’t a subcategory of tennis.

    Say for instance you had a multiplayer racing simulator game, you could categorise that as multiplayer > racing > sim, but if you have a similar singleplayer game you have single player > racing > sim so clearly those aren’t just subcategories of single/multiplayer.
    You could try sim > racing > multiplayer, but what about your city building sims? Now it’s your middle category that didn’t work right.

    If they’re independent tags sim, racing, multiplayer you can change any one of them independently. If any one tag changes that changes how the game is played.