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Plenty of people spend their time different.
Plenty of people will learn how to do something else if they actually don't have to work.
This is only a problem in a dystopian shit future were we are too stupid to get around this.
Work doesn't make people free.
and yes i do absolutly believe that the pressure will be good for us as a society as we will have to rethink.
SO is not GitHub. GitHub has high motivation to protect your (c) for you, SO has not. Never has.
No one is editing their posts constantly and with high change.
Take your backups (you have anyway), diff the content, allow only minor changes and a max edit limit of x, restore the content if those criteria are not met.
Sure it costs a week or a month to add this feature to the platform but data will not be lost.
Nonetheless, SO is not the only ones having an archive of SO
Surprise your content is publicly available and used by a company for profit \o/
Srsly... your QA was used in GPT before this agreement already now SO profits from it which makes it in theory better because now SO (the platform you liked before this) is able to continue investing into it and making money / profit which motivates them to keep investing and inovating.
Why tf is this a bad thing?
And GDPR is an eu thing not a usa thing.
Just because some people can't afford a new car every x years or can fly around 2 3 or 5 times a year, our society will not starve to death.
There are plenty of people who have holiday houses and other shit they don't need. If we make it less attractive for the rich to work, the rich will stop working and the others get a chance.