Should the second be punished in some way because of that?

It’s not a punishment. It’s a correction, required to maintain a healthy market.

Your lemonade stand would be more like if there was a stand on every block: By virtue of the scale of their business they could afford to undercut any competition that tried to start up. If they did that they could be slapped on the wrist for being anti-competitive.

Is Valve/Steam anti-competitive? IDK. It’s a monopoly, though, so you have to watch it extra carefully to ensure it doesn’t abuse its position as a market leader.

lol I’m imagining a line item on all transactions like

    Subtotal 13.21
        Taxe 6.02
Platform fee 6.33
   Yacht fee 10.00
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Total      $35.56 CAD 

You’re right that going public would virtually guarantee they enshittify, but staying private does not guarantee they remain customer focused. It’s still a business, and right now the only thing making it so good for customers, IMHO, is an ideological vision that favours long term stability, and steady profits. That is not the norm in the business world (of tech platforms).

Yeah they were ahead of Steam there for a while.

Everything is cool

Ugh yes, I don’t even know how I got this spoon. It’s wide and flat, and has these sheer edges like it was just stamped from a sheet of metal and then fucked into a vaguely spoon adjacent shape by aliens who had heard of the concept of spoon and hated people. Somehow the metal is always kind of grimy looking, even when freshly cleaned.

This spoon will outlive me. It will outlive all of us.

I’ve been taking mine on runs and long walks, trying to wear them out. 🧦 🔫 It’s the only way

I guess my parents didn’t force me to eat, so I just had what they put out.

What do you mean by jail? Are you imagining like some voluntary jail where you check in and out as you please?

Sorry, I’m not trying to be glib, but maybe we just have different understandings on the word “force”. You can’t send someone to jail without force.

Exactly. This will sounds flippant, but it’s the same thing when people debate over “what is art” as if something has to be good in order to be considered art.

Likewise, you don’t need to be good to be considered a person. In fact there is nothing you could do that could rob you of your personhood in my eyes. It’s inalienable. That doesn’t mean every person is good or should be treated the same way.

I don’t want Nazies dead. But they are not people.

I think you’ve got it backwards, friend! They are people, just awful people who need to be stopped.

it’ssss jokesssss

Honestly I’m never surprised to see @lemmy.world after these comments. Not saying there aren’t plenty of cool people on world, like yourself, but it is the default instance.

Like so much. I couldn’t keep up.

Pretty happy I grew up with hippy parents who raised me on almond and soy milks 😤

Wow Amazon Prime and Nestle. I know I shouldn’t shame my fellow captives, since I’m sure I’m doing something that another person would find reprehensible

You raise a good point

Yeah! Good job, guys. Keep it up.

I don’t want my kids relying on another person to do basic life functions, that’s a very pathetic way to be.

Totally, I have a friend who really struggling because her two boys are now becoming teenagers and all they’ve ever seen is her doing virtually all the work around the house, so naturally they’re now resistant to being expected to step it up in the chore department. And it’s not like their father can really admonish them, because they’re just copying his lead.

I get that it can be a struggle to overcome your upbringing, but you’ve got to try.

The concept of “mental load” blew the cabin doors of my brain wide open. This isn’t the comic that did it for me, but it’s as decent one about how men are often socialized to be basically useless outside of a few specialized roles: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/26/gender-wars-household-chores-comic