Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
by hollerith on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:34PM
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He's a real Adolf Eichmann, that one
This escalated quickly!
I hope you realize I was using sarcasm and was trying to defend you against the criticism.
Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
by southernplaces7 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:53AM
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I don't necessarily disagree with working for a founder who has that as a philosophy, because I also don't think some of the arguments here about the elite of the world appropriating ever more wealth while crushing the masses into misery are realistic at all (They smell more like mid-20th century communist fantasies of capitalist decline than anything to me)
But, if your central moral argument about the subject does revolve around thinking such a scenario is likely and being disgusted by it, then being paid by the people supposedly promoting this kind of economic inequality and working with them while they do it is pretty goddam hypocritical.
So you worked with someone who you claim to be a direct -knowing even- participant in this trend. You presumably benefited from this work too. No?
It's impressive how many people bemoan the dangers they see in a thing, while continuing to contribute to its growth, again and again and again, as long as the personal benefit keeps working their way.