There’s a developer that makes games for young kids on the App Store and I always liked them because it was simple: pay for the game once, no tracking, no subscriptions.
They’ve been bought out by some other company. There was a game my daughter loved that’s now part of a bundle which requires (a) a subscription (an expensive one), (b) an email address, and (c) data tracking.
Capitalism requires scarcity to function. Where scarcity doesn’t exist, capitalists will create it.
We will never live in a post-scarcity world under capitalism because capitalists will use whatever means necessary to prevent it.
They will buy up housing so they can charge rent, they will lock features you used to get as part of product ownership behind subscriptions, they will lobby to prevent newcomers from offering sustainable alternatives.
I feel like the world would be better if money didn't exist and everyone had everything they needed to live comfortably
People wouldn't work to make a living, but to make themselves and others happy #fuckcapitalism
Prendre un poste de formatrice en insertion professionnelle et se retrouver dans les faits avec des missions de contrôleuse RSA 🤢
Combien de temps vais-je tenir?... 🥺😬 #travail#controlesocial#fuckcapitalism
#3goodthings, because I saw someone else do it just now
Had a long talk with an old friend over breakfast
Cousin Dave and family came through town for lunch and again, nice talk, especially with their two kids who I've never had an actual conversation with before
"The most blunt, honest assessment of your #COVID19 risk now exists in the terms and conditions section. You can find it buried somewhere in the legalese of every event you attend, every trip you take, and every restaurant you walk into. Our politicians lost no time passing Covid liability shields in virtually every state. They've always cared most about protecting businesses, not ordinary people like us."
US patent office and #Sony can both go fuck themselves. This dangerous precedent set by #Nintendo and #Sega is only continuing on a worse and worse path.
Make no mistake - this is a CONSCIOUS ATTACK on #indiedev and smaller #gamedev to completely push them out of the market.
You see the hour hand standing still pointing at the rim. You look later in the day and barely notice it moved.
I witness hours, minutes, seconds, travelling around the the face racing past the numbers, and understand the principles of the movement driving them.
From the complex ballet of the mechanical movements, right through to the IC controlled stepper motor.
You look at the complex and want it to read like a sundial at midnight.
You force me to be the pariah... because I see there's more to all this than killing myself slowly chasing the next food pellet dropped by someone who doesn't even fucking care if you die.
You force me to be the pariah... because you won't even contemplate that your identity is wrought from the enforcement of false positivity and toing a line for the sake of belonging.
You force me to be the pariah... because you uphold an unjust society that would see me dead for not being a hyper productive number on a spreadsheet.
You force me to be the pariah... because you refuse to see that you contribute dehumanizing people because you're given a few more food pellets for your compliance and complicity.
I can't call off because the company only allows you to "take care of your health™". X number of times then it gets pissy with you for being a defective robot
But if I do it's shit load of dealing with management and their 'tisk-tisk! Why are you taking care of yourself instead of sacrificing yourself to the cult, errr company!'
"Ableism tells us some bodies are valuable & some are disposable . . . ableism has been forged with & through white supremacy, colonial conquest, capitalist domination, & heteropatriarchy so that bodies are valued for their ability to produce profit or have it extracted from them, or are otherwise excluded or eliminated through isolation, institutionalization, incarceration, &/or death"
Neuro typicals, complain about Mondays repeatedly until they have a "mid life crisis" ...or worse.
The "work or starve" mentality, the "work makes you free" mentality is the problem.
Not the neuro divergent, not the people forced to struggle to survive in an artificially cruel society vent on elevating the capitalist class that does none of the work and reaps all the rewards.
Capitalists will swarm San Francisco for APEC, but I got there first.