Yes it does, actually. Just like each and every time in the past where some beneficent and magnanimous :porky-happy: seemed superficially generous up front, the time will likely come where that generosity dries up because of economic necessity and the "good" output becomes worse and worse over time.
There are a bewildering number of examples of this, but I'll use one of the biggest ones in a similar tech field from recent history: Google. It used to actually be a good, even great, search engine. And it was free. And people said the machine's owner did not matter because the output was good. :capitalist-laugh:
Of course we’re always going to have to adapt as capital catches up, that doesn’t mean these contraptions can’t have value in the short-term.
I have no disagreement over that particular point, except to say "adapt" is not the same thing as "submissive acceptance of what capital can do and will inevitably try to do with it."
:reddit-logo: was never good, especially because it swallowed up the userbase of countless smaller competing forums and was a near-monopoly of its kind. Even the "value in the short-term" has already been squeezed with cryptocurrency grifting attempts, deliberately worse interface and layout decisions designed to drive more "engagement," and clunkier and jankier everything except the ever more streamlined and more efficient monetization and surveillance/data-collecting systems that the ruling class benefits from.
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Yes it does, actually. Just like each and every time in the past where some beneficent and magnanimous :porky-happy: seemed superficially generous up front, the time will likely come where that generosity dries up because of economic necessity and the "good" output becomes worse and worse over time.
There are a bewildering number of examples of this, but I'll use one of the biggest ones in a similar tech field from recent history: Google. It used to actually be a good, even great, search engine. And it was free. And people said the machine's owner did not matter because the output was good. :capitalist-laugh:
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I have no disagreement over that particular point, except to say "adapt" is not the same thing as "submissive acceptance of what capital can do and will inevitably try to do with it."
:reddit-logo: was never good, especially because it swallowed up the userbase of countless smaller competing forums and was a near-monopoly of its kind. Even the "value in the short-term" has already been squeezed with cryptocurrency grifting attempts, deliberately worse interface and layout decisions designed to drive more "engagement," and clunkier and jankier everything except the ever more streamlined and more efficient monetization and surveillance/data-collecting systems that the ruling class benefits from.