Maiq@piefed.social 2 days ago
One set works within a system that they have set up to benefit only themselves.
The other works outside that system either for themselves or a separate collective. Working outside the measured control system is a direct threat to the profits the beneficiaries of that system.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Except that piracy has always been explicitly endorsed by the beneficiaries of the system, they simply change the name, structure the conditions such that their piracy is considered part of the system even if it isn’t and then proceed to be pirates.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
Things get even more muddled when you consider that selfish agents may believe they are structuring a system for selfish gain when they are in fact destroying the system for everybody including themselves.
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is all notwithstanding the fact that most of where we get our modern day depiction of pirates as evil ne’er-do-wells is from Robert Newton films.