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Re:My YouTube Earnings by Dylan16807 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @03:40PM (#34237696)
Why are countries coming up now? I thought you were arguing against the sharecropping analogy, and the people that do sharecropping are all low-power individuals.

"Someone rich could make a new ecosystem" is unrelated to whether the current ecosystem resembles sharecropping.

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Re:My YouTube Earnings by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:56PM (#34239891)
Because coldtea’s response involved using the power of a country’s legal system to force a business to share its revenue.
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Re:My YouTube Earnings by Dylan16807 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @07:38PM (#34240249)
If an accusation of sharecropping is legitimate, I think it's fair for the government to apply regulation and not just try to compete.
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Re:My YouTube Earnings by coldtea on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:26AM (#34244359)
So, is your arguent that instead of inconveniencing those businesses, countries should just create competiting public services?

They can always do that too, but I'm also full for them inconveniencing those businesses.

Businesses should be whiped and forced to play responsibly in society. They can innovate on tech and features, they don't have to innovate on milking people and erroding working rights.

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