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> A healthy system needs some kind of motivation. In economies, that is profits/money. What's wrong with that? (I know I am being simplistic here but...) Simple. I buy a thing, I get something – in that moment the contract is over. VW doesn’t come to me every 3 days with "You bought a car, to continue using it, take this and drive to Hanover and deliver it there". When I bought my computer, or its parts, I bought them, I put them together, and that’s it. The manufacturer has never asked me to do work for them, or pay for them again. I use ARCH Linux and Firefox – projects done by volunteers, and they profit by having a better product for themselves and others. Google profits from ads, and from selling data. That’s a tradeoff, and a reason for me to try to use as few Google products as possible. But when government organizations use ReCaptcha, and I have to work without pay for Google, then I have no choice, and it is not something I agree with. |