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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you give away your production value to a capitalist for free?

It's literally the only power you hold in the labour market, and it's your own fault if you give it away for nothing.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, how dare you contribute to a community effort.

Wait, isn't the post you just made doing just that?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware that Lemmy is a for-profit enterprise.

Plus, my getting use out of a product and simply by doing so helping the company make money (say by increasing engagement or such), is extremely different to somebody going out of their way to produce work for that company in a way that doesn't directly benefit the producer at all.

Put another way - Am I helping keep my local supermarket in business simply by shopping there? Sure. Would I offer my free time to help clean their store?

Hell. No.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In 2009 Duolingo was originally funded by the NSF. Their motto was free education will change the world.

In the 14 years since, they became something else. All those crowd sourced comments from a good upstanding project require the project and it's data not to become evil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not everyone started as an epic lemmy leftist