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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Quit reposting this shitty meme. It's not applicable. If you want a society where everyone works for free, you'd better get the ball rolling. Advocating for others to do that while refusing to do it yourself is pure hypocrisy.

Maybe I should start charging you a monthly fee for access to lemmy.ml.

Why would I pay you for something I don't even use? And you don't even own? If you want to start your own Lemmy server and charge admission, by all means, go right ahead. But Lemmy by it's very nature wouldn't allow for that since there are hundreds of other free servers. You see anyone out there making laptops for free and just giving them away to anyone who wants them? No? What a bunch of assholes!

Lemmy is something people created in their spare time. When they're not working at their jobs that pay them with money they collect from customers so that they can pay rent and buy food.

This is just such a preposterously insane thing to even put forward.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Quit reposting this shitty meme. It’s not applicable.

You are literally the kind of liberal smuglord this meme is about.

If you want a society where everyone works for free

I want a society where the capitalist class is abolished, so that it no longer leeches off the labor of the working class.

Why would I pay you for something I don’t even use?

You’re using it right now, or else you wouldn’t be talking to me.

And you don’t even own?

$ curl -s https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
>    | jq -r '[.admins[].person] | map(select(.name == "davel")) | .[0].name'
davel
$
[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not really involved in this conversation, but you are literally calling this guy a smuglord while smugly treating him like he's an idiot.

The way you're using that meme looks like smug feelgood self-supporting blanket rejection of any argument as being from a 'smuglord'.

Grow up. Live your communist dream, but if you try to shove it down someone's throat, particularly in an inapplicable situation, don't be surprised if you find yourself choking instead.

[–] davepar@mastodon.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

@bastion @davel
Workers being paid nothing is more of a capitalist dream, is it not?

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