“Software is cheap now this changes everything” no, no it’s not. Software is much more expensive now, but it’s cheap _for you_ because _your_ bills are subsidized by a tectonic amount of venture capital and labor exploitation. You aren’t paying for the world’s bandwidth bills or the environmental impact of the server farms or warehouses full of underpaid labor in foreign countries to make the software, but that’s still what your software costs. All you’re doing is freeloading off exploitation.

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