[gumballindie]

That’s by design. You are meant to work for a corporation. Capitalism is nearly dead due to this - corporation flooding the market, drowning indie enterprise, and clogging money. We need a return to capitalism and do away with guilded corporatism.

[plagiarist]

The specific case here is usually referred to as commoditizing the complement, it's probably intentional at this point if it wasn't intentional from the start.

https://gwern.net/complement