Others did it and faced no consequences. No government step-in, no mass customer loss. When there are no consequences for greedy monopolistic behaviours, greedy monopolies act greedily. Welcome to market capitalism without proper regulation.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s with these companies going full-evil all of a sudden.
Fluid@aussie.zone 1 year ago
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
[deleted]CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair it does seem like there’s some kind of coordinated effort going on.
Restaldt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The infinite money dried up. Now they are out of ideas on how to make a profit because they werent before.
derpgon@programming.dev 1 year ago
Also investors pushing for higher profit margins. Unity is publicly traded company.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
and poor parsec just got bought by unity, definitely gonna go down with the ship for profit
hackitfast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So the companies “aren’t making enough money”, which means they don’t have enough to pay us, which means we don’t have enough to spend on them.
Hmm.
dandi8@kbin.social 1 year ago
They only "don't have enough to pay us" insofar as they don't have enough to pay us without sacrificing record high profits.