Seeing this made me feel so cozy in my little instance. 😆

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While I personally don't, the difference between this and that is that most people here, together as a community, have decided, again together, that they don't want to federate with Meta apps because of a long history of privacy and other abuses.

That's not the same thing as another billionaire pissed off because they are doing exactly what capitalism is "supposed to do"

Do better or die is the whole philosophy no?

The whole philosophy of capitalism is “Economic interaction must be voluntary to be valid.

Oh boy, everyone should tell those Indian slaves in Dubai. They can't hold you prisoner guys, it's not valid if it's not voluntary, so you can just go home. The capitalists say it's okay…wait, what? Oh! it was the capitalists who put them there.

Nope sorry. Capitalism is defined by voluntary cooperation. Slavery’s not capitalism.

You should tell capitalists, it seems like they didn't get the memo.

An innocent person who commits a crime is no longer an innocent person.

A vegetarian who starts eating meat is no longer a vegetarian.

A capitalist who enslaves someone is no longer a capitalist.

I’m so sorry you have trouble with this basic definition, but capitalism is a free market system. Slaves are not free, and that economic relationship is not a free market relationship.

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