“Fiscal Conservatives” strike again.

Direct your money towards better journalism.

I suggest ProPublica.

Wish we could all be smart enough to drop Amazon in protest.

We can’t know anything with 100% certainty. We can always imagine some razzle-dazzle, imagined scenario to counter the rational explanation if we like.

The point of the scientific method and logical reasoning is to pick the explanation with the most evidence.

They must not be spending enough ad money.

We need a path to permanently removing money from politics, with harsh penalties for violations. “Nuclear harsh.”

That will change the dynamics of incentives for public office, alone solving most if not all issues.

Because fascism.

I’ve been singing a made up variation of this song including our pets’ extra names since 2008.

It probably pops up no less than 3 times a week, every week. Every week.

Local motorsports in the US.

It’s a whack-a-mole of services which restream content, but the piracy services are also subscription based.

What about the small, local services that are just trying to pay the broadcast production bills and make a little cash to become viable businesses?

Fuck those people too?

Because these piracy services also affect them. These services restream the content taking away revenue from the small streaming services. In many cases we’re talking about volumes less than 100. So these restream services pop up, illegally use trademarks and copyrighted materials to advertise, and can reduce volumes enough that they are no longer viable.

Sometimes these things affect regular people trying to make life work too. Not just billionaire assholes who legitimately deserve the criticism.

It’s beyond me why Americans, who scream about government taxation, can’t see how large corporations essentially have added a hidden, ever increasing line item tax to their paychecks to extract wealth.

And then we fawn over billionaires donating their money to causes we perceive as beneficial to society - they’re just returning stolen money without interest or penalty, which could have been better used when money was actually earned.

The government is people. So all you’re saying is people, by nature, will always become corrupt.

Creativity takes inspiration. Somebody has to manifest the stepping stones on the path to a masterpiece. The magic of the internet is we get to watch it happen. We’ll rarely hear Beethoven’s garbage or see Michelangelo’s screw ups, but whoever did this…we get to see the stepping stone.

Many Americans (I’m one) cling to a variety of purity tests, and they struggle to grasp the bigger picture which could result in better outcomes for everyone.

Black or white. Win or lose. It’s a tiring cultural characteristic.

Yep. Incentives align differently for different people, which is what makes a healthy market work.