This is textbook victim blaming. I imagine you don’t think he really filed a lawsuit against himself. Someone else made the decision to throw this guy in prison and garnish his income, probably until he passes.
Not that I disagree with it per se, just this language reads as a sort of “culpability laundering”. Another way to say practically the same thing: “He got what was coming.” Even if it’s literally true, “what was coming” isn’t necessarily deserved.
> “what was coming” isn’t necessarily deserved
For sure, and I agreed with that at the beginning of my previous comment
I don't deny it. Everything we do has consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
> Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law.
> Martin Luther King Jr.
My conscience is thoroughly aroused. I see the absurdity of the laws they used to punish him. Others will see it too.
> and you realize you've become a perpetual debt slave to the corporation that inflicted this upon you
By the look of it, he's an adult who made a conscious decision. I'd like it to change, but we all know what the risks are of going against megacorps and the system that protects them. He inflicted this on himself...
Slightly tangent, I vividly remember how a bit more than 15 years ago the ruling class would compare streaming services to paying a fixed fee for anything you want in a shop. Likely repeating what was on the leaflet of the lobby of the editors. At the time it was mainly Deezer here, now that it's an industry worth a few hundred billion dollars across all kind of medium, it's all fine and needs protecting.