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Everything’s a subscription, or wants you to sign up for one. I want off this shitshow please.

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[–] bentropy@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most people online seemingly prefer to live in a shit hole without any infrastructure at all then to discuss how to fix their government to reduce waste of tax money...

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fix is easy. Guillotines. Corrupt politicians. CEOs. Anyone with a net worth over a certain amount.

Off with their heads.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

easy

violent revolution resulting in the death and destruction of the world as we know it

rofl

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well? Would it really be the worst idea, moving forward??

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn't called the Reign of Terror for nothing dude. It was an awful idea that created a lot of innocent suffering.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guillotines...

I would remind you that the people who started the reign of terror by calling for and lopping off the heads of the nobility ended up taking La Monte-à-regret (The Regretful Climb) themselves.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yes, because what really happened was one upper class being replaced by another. The workers/lower class was exploited throughout, and that never changed.

Politicians are supposed to be representatives of the people, but no matter where you live right now, they're owned by corporations, and champion corporate interests. Corporations are not our friends. Thus by extension, politicians aren't either.

[–] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thats why we should strive to replace human leadership with A.I. Which of all the jobs is gonna steal from people, it migth as well steal the jobs that could be benefitial to everyone but arent because humans are weakminded and corruptible. A.I. is gonna redistribute resources as needed in a human level, not in a cold USSR way, and it should build a network to exploit resources in a sustainable way. Of course im talking about a singularity level A.I. and not necesarily the language models or machine learning that we have at the moment (Althought imho they could do a better job than our actual world/corporate overlords), and the fact that we are not working on something like that is probably concerning since there are problems like global warning that the current leadership is just not gonna solve and to replace it with more of the same is just gonna continue the cycle.

Guillotines

As a Klingon, this feels like an acceptable answer.

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Just don't subscribe. When netflix pissed me off, I unsubscribed. When Adobe moved to a subscription based platform, I forced myself to learn alternative applications (although I still have a copy of Adobe Creative Suite from 2003 which I am still using on old laptop when needed). When Microsoft started charging a subscription to use "office" apps, I switched to LibreOffice. During Covid when I wasn't using my gym membership I cancelled it and used that $75/month savings to start building a home gym setup (it ain't great, but its better than nothing!)

If something is a subscription, I either find an alternative program/service, or simply don't use it.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soooo... I'm pirating my country?

[–] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

*IRS whants to know your location

[–] amminadabz@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ive been on the phone for an hour and they wont let me fucking cancel

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found the best answer is telling them you can’t afford it anymore, followed by telling them everything negative about your life in a lifeless tone. After a while, they’ll do anything to get you off the phone.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

You can also tell your credit card company that you attempted to cancel but they won't let you, and all future charges from that merchant should be refused.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not true of taxes in general—you only get taxed on income if you make income, for example—but property taxes certainly do feel like a subscription fee, because unlike other taxes, money doesn't have to change hands in order for you to owe property tax.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Cancelling the US subscription is really hard, they actually charge you a premium for the cancellation service. I have been working on it for a while, but the customer service is just atrocious.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 3 points 1 year ago

I mean businesses under capitalism have to support themselves somehow. On the web if you're not a storefront you basically have to either advertise or offer subs.