• Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    But this thing with the Reddit API is, uh, directly related to capitalism? This isn’t grasping at straws, it’s literally capitalists doing a capitalism.

    Like, they’re going “give us a bunch of money, or we’re going to restrict your access to this, because it’s our private property”. At it’s core, that… That’s what capitalism is.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t want to appear more pedantic than I am, but in my book capitalism is all about how to generate and accumulate money from propriety. so it would have been a better move to milk third party app, than to kill them with unrealistic price. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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      They’ve been loosing money for 20 years, now they want the IPO so they need to show that they can also make money.

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      undefined> But this thing with the Reddit API is, uh, directly related to capitalism?

      No, it’s directly related to management making a terrible and short-sighted decision. Capitalism is a concept, it’s not a person taking action based on a decision. Maybe that decision is, in turn, based on capitalistic ideas, but then the policy isn’t directly related to capitalism and is instead an indirect consequence.

      Here, its born of bad problem solving, terrible communication, and inept strategy. Not an intrinsic problem with capitalism.