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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by sublinear on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:22PM (#44789617)
Why bring up capitalism? I don't get it. What's stopping people from lying and cheating under any other system?
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by dgshsg on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:37PM (#44790495)
When lying and cheating doesn't get you ahead, there is no reason to do it.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by Ray20 on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:04PM (#44790760)
The problem is that without capitalism ONLY lying and cheating will get you ahead. Look at ANY country that builds its economy on the restriction of people's economic freedom, on the absence of private property rights - these are the most deceitful and disgusting regimes in the world with zero level of public trust.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by ghurtado on Monday August 04, 2025 @05:13PM (#44791426)
You seriously think that mankind wasn't lying and cheating long before inventing capitalism?
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by dgshsg on Monday August 04, 2025 @05:45PM (#44791700)
Sure, but the risk/reward ratio was different.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by Workaccount2 on Monday August 04, 2025 @05:20PM (#44791498)
If we look at any communist society, the only way to get ahead was lying and cheating. China was forced to adopt capitalist markets to deal with this, hence why modern China hardly resembles the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, or Laos.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by immibis on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:19AM (#44796700)
Communist with a capital C.

I've never seen a stateless, classless, moneyless society. It may be impossible.

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