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Another reason Free Software is important (lemmy.world)
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[–] ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Capitalists run their businesses like Authoritarians. It’s not a stretch to see them embrace this style of rule as long as it benefits them. They were never allies to the populous. They just manipulated optics to get us to buy their shit.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They just manipulated optics to get us to buy their shit.

That's a funny way of spelling "manipulated markets"