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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by adwn on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:31AM (#38431082)
Your argument is proving too much [1]: Every attitude will lead to absurd results when followed to absurd lengths. It's like claiming that the advice to drink water is "quite psychotic", because drinking 50 liters of water will rupture your stomach and kill you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much

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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by jacquesm on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:49AM (#38431698)
No, it proves just enough: because growth is followed to absurd lengths regularly and you will be hard pressed to find many other attitudes that are followed to those lengths in quantities that make that much difference to everybody alive today.

The three month stock market cycle coupled with capitalism and advertising are at the root of a ton of societal problems that we are incapable of solving within that framework. Between those three we are all just lemons to be squeezed.

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