“stop using Google, use a company that directly gives money to Google instead” 🤔

From HN comments, a link to the non-video writeup: https://www.thestockpot.net/videos/whykmart

As The Fucking Article says:

humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that

1. Because USians are so terrorized about losing their jobs (and losing housing, food, medical care, education), have such nonexistent or useless unions, and almost no legal protections from termination, that they’ll do close to anything their boss tells them.

2. Lifetimes of propaganda has taught everyone that “organizing” is something only done by commies / criminals / fools, and the only legitimate way to change society is to carry on stoically, individually doing what capitalism demands of them while waiting for a charismatic politician / business leader / media celebrity to pop up and nudge things along the inevitable, barely perceptible, slope of forward progress.

3. The “just following orders” excuse worked out pretty great for the majority of Nazis the first time (rare overrepresented examples notwithstanding), why would it not again?

If they want a post-pandemic comeback they have to wait for the pandemic to finish first…

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