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The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (www.honest-broker.com)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Any action would require a government that pretends to care for the pedons.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Spotify is AFAIK Swedish, so there you go.

PS:
I guess you mean peons.
Pedons is apparently types of soil: https://www.britannica.com/science/pedon

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spotify is AFAIK Swedish

It was started in Sweden where its operations are still based, but it's headquartered in Luxembourg and it chose to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Luxembourg screams "tax efficiency" to me, so their list of pre-IPO investors must be quite the thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All western regimes sold out us out, mate

Exploiting us is the MO as workers and customers

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I disagree, I live in Scandinavia in one of the best democracies in the world.
EU is mostly OK IMO. Democracy can never be perfect, because it's about compromises. But without the compromises you'll have a real dystopia.
But here is just about as good as it gets at our current level of development.
So get real why don't you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sweden has regressing with the rest of the west.

Sure they have it better than most of oecd but the corporate take over is underway, they botched the immigration policy which resulted with serious crime rates...

A tiny foil wearing person would think that this was done on purpose to undo Swedish strong socio economic policy

Time will tell but the trend for Sweden is not looking good same way as other countries...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

OK before you claimed it had already happened stating: "All western regimes sold out us out, mate" .
Now you claim it WILL happen: "the corporate take over is underway".

That's called moving the goal post, and is a VERY dishonest way to argue a point.
You are either confused or dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It takes a generation to reverse the policy... But first it takes selling out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Go home Ivan, you're drunk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I am tired boss;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Well put. Cheers, gallons of glogg and a Merry Christmas to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. Regulation is deeply unpopular these days. At least with the oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

We got enough of their bootlickers in this thread lol