The ladder has been privatized.
You get the greased pole.
I know it isn’t much, but services like mastodon, lemmy, kbin, friendica, Peertube, etc have shown me there is connected pushback.
Tilde communities have given me something smaller scale to focus on.
Feyd@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Every single one of these flows from wealth inequality.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Excellent point!
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They also flow from corruption (regulatory capture/failure to enforce anti-trust law). It’s hard to say whether that is itself a cause or result of wealth inequality, though.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nintendo, when chasing developers of emulators and modders, uses regulatory mechanisms. IP is such a mechanism initially. Intended to protect the little guy from big bad corporations.
It’s both of course. Only time flows in one direction and never the other.
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
(and reinforces it)
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No.