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It doesn't change you. It increases your access to your subconscious. From there, you can draw your own conclusions.

All it takes is saying 'no' and then THEY have to sue YOU, which would be in small claims court where you really don't need a lawyer.

I wonder if this would have been enforceable. Just because their contract says something does not mean it holds up in court.

> They're not dictating your business model.

Actually yes they are because they control approximately 100% of distribution.

Just like I can switch browser and download programs from lots of sources, I should be able to switch Play Store.

Google is a monopoly that must be broken up.

Only when speaking with the politically religious.

Well that's the baseline assertion that he was replying to.

He's an engineer who actively participates in the design of several wildly successful products AND he runs several extremely successful companies AND has successfully founded, ran and sold companies in the past, e.g. PayPal.

We need more people like him in charge.

Selectively taking incorrect statements from one side is a way of technically being truthful while pushing one sided information, i.e. it's propaganda.

> Anybody else noticed this before?

I've noticed the first comment on HN is almost always criticism. Also often the first reply to the first comment (Hello!).

Create something or be quiet, imo.

Let's just be honest about what we are doing.

People may mention this, depending on your location, but as a society, no.

This is the case in all of the western world. We push women in the direction of careers and never mention the consequences.

At the same time, while in some ways people are rich these days, we can't seem to find the time or money to have kids. That's not much of a choice. It's more that people react their to circumstances. If anything it's a form of "ethical" birth control.

They have chosen new religions and a new elite priesthood, they just have different names.

The article also includes fertility problem with women. These may actually be even larger because women have a shorter window of opportunity to have children. Get a careers and start having kids in your 30s? For many, it's too late. For some reason we never tell women that.

Genocidal ideas are more common than we like to admit.