The social contract of this country was tossed out the window a long time ago, so I will try to get away with any personal victory against the overreach of billion dollar companies any way I easily and legally can.
If I lived in a country where representation was actually democratic, if my tax dollars went towards public healthcare rather than paying for pharmacy billionaire’s 15th yacht, and providing actual better schools for kids rather than bulletproof windows because politicians won’t pass gun reform, and public transportation that was more bullet trains and less 25 mph rickety AmTraks covered in piss and graffiti, perhaps I would feel like I should be concerned with figuring out how to best provide for those that create in the marketplace within the hostile business environments they are forced to work within the constraints of… but there is far too much more important bullshit I have to worry about to concern myself with “pirating via skipping or blocking intrusive and constant ads” when they now will pour out of every possible layer of the media experience we have available to us as consumers.
Telling me to concern myself with that puts too much responsibility on me as a consumer when we really have relatively very little power.
I will pay for anything I think is of good value and pay directly to those who make the things I love and see work put into, but I will not suffer endless ads on behalf of anyone, nor will I force anyone in my home to suffer watching endless commercials for things like kids toy products like I was thanks to the Reagan era deregulation of kids’ TV programming.
I don’t care.
The social contract of this country was tossed out the window a long time ago, so I will try to get away with any personal victory against the overreach of billion dollar companies any way I easily and legally can.
If I lived in a country where representation was actually democratic, if my tax dollars went towards public healthcare rather than paying for pharmacy billionaire’s 15th yacht, and providing actual better schools for kids rather than bulletproof windows because politicians won’t pass gun reform, and public transportation that was more bullet trains and less 25 mph rickety AmTraks covered in piss and graffiti, perhaps I would feel like I should be concerned with figuring out how to best provide for those that create in the marketplace within the hostile business environments they are forced to work within the constraints of… but there is far too much more important bullshit I have to worry about to concern myself with “pirating via skipping or blocking intrusive and constant ads” when they now will pour out of every possible layer of the media experience we have available to us as consumers.
Telling me to concern myself with that puts too much responsibility on me as a consumer when we really have relatively very little power.
I will pay for anything I think is of good value and pay directly to those who make the things I love and see work put into, but I will not suffer endless ads on behalf of anyone, nor will I force anyone in my home to suffer watching endless commercials for things like kids toy products like I was thanks to the Reagan era deregulation of kids’ TV programming.