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why did anyone trade prior to capitalism?
Consensual trade between rational actors leads to both of them benefiting. Before capitalism, the ideology which focused on property rights and individual freedoms didn't really have a name...
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Block public access not archival
The reason they're blocking archives is people can go to the archive, to bypass paywalls and avoid targeted adverts, instead of the news site. It's also to prevent AI scrapers harvesting articles.
https://archive.is/9X4xo
Not surprising, sites like Reddit use it to get around their paywalls. Redditors then had the gall to pretend like it wasn’t their number one use case.
First of all it's a lot faster than archive.org, second of all they are much better at bypassing the paywalls. In some cases the operator even seems to have taken up a subscription or at least a user account (in some cases you could see there is a user logged in). They're really clever at this.
For this site the main purpose is indeed the bypass. For the internet archive it's not.
And yeah it could easily be fixed by just publishing the pages a month later or so.
Just burn the whole fucking internet down. We can't have nice things.
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Consensual trade between rational actors leads to both of them benefiting. Before capitalism, the ideology which focused on property rights and individual freedoms didn't really have a name...
so how's it the beauty of capitalism?
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so how's it the beauty of capitalism?
'cause that's the one where you get to own things?
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You people need to stop saying this. You're being greedy when you buy groceries from a cheaper supermarket. You're being greedy when you negotiate your salary or choose a job based on pay, or anything where you're trying to get more stuff for yourself. Those things are all perfectly good behaviors, they make the world more productive, so everyone wins overall. Greed isn't a problem. Spite? No evidence of that. They p…
> Greed isn't a problem. you listed 1. buying the cheapest groceries you can reasonably find 2. trying to get the highest salary you can 3. literally any time you try to get more for yourself that's a weak list from which to conclude that greed isn't a problem, especially since in the case of 1. and 2. someone's making money off you, the person who's supposedly greedy in these scenarios.
1. Do farmers count as greedily making money off you for trying to get the highest prices for their produce from distributers and retailers who are trying to compete for customers with low prices? Yes but that's good! Every player in that supply chain is optimizing for themselves and it ends up working pretty well for everyone. Maybe you think farmers are too rich and should not demand so much money for their produce because greed is bad?