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He only works for himself only if he gets a steady income stream so long as the systems he manages stay up, which I'm sure he doesn't.

There is a reason for the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" ideology being promoted by "PTB", ie subscriptions for ink cartridges, heated seats and advanced suspensions in newer cars.

Corporations now want a continuous income stream from the services provide by physical products they have "sold", but they don't want their employees and subcontractors from earning some of that income stream.

Some IT administrators have been know to schedule regular "downtimes" on perfectly performing systems just to ensure their users and bosses don't take their service for granted.

[Tor3]

I have kind of scratched my head a bit as to why our local VM provider has all these scheduled downtimes.. while the servers we run in-house have those maybe once or twice a year, at most. Hm..

[quesera]

> why our local VM provider has all these scheduled downtimes

Generally (but not exclusively) this is because they have more complex infrastructure, a larger number of customers, and a contractual commitment to give advance notice of outages when possible.

It therefore makes sense to schedule downtime even if you don't need it (or even use it), so that customers can arrange their own expectations.

[quesera]

> There is a reason for the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" ideology being promoted by "PTB",

No one, and certainly not the "PTB", is promoting this idea.

It was a thought experiment in a book/TED talk that deeply offends a certain percentage of the populace, and is ignored by everyone else. It is nothing more than that.

It does not exist in any discussions outside the circles of those who are offended for profit, and those that listen to them.

Spare yourself (and us), and stop listening to them.