This is not a hypothetical and is in fact quite common. Say you’re working for a non profit, write code for a standard specification that is better than all other open options. It is better for everyone that companies adopt this code for interoperability.

The reason is not the license.

You know why it hurts so much? Because we know it’s true.

Damn you. But bless you too.

Dang, for a moment I considered that you might have independent thoughts. This LemmtGradChatGPT BS ruined it.

And you live on your own self-sustaining compound, posting from your open hardware, fabricated in free factories, Libre software OS and applications, with compost-generated power? Didn’t think so. Welcome to the gray zone bootlicker.

But Signal is bad, an op-ed by one of Lemmy’s founders: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#conclusions

I certainly agree there is cause for caution, as one should always exercise where trust is placed in such matters. But there are leaps of bad logic in that writeup, and the dog pile of FUD swirling around Signal feels nearly orchestrated.

Why not call them capitalists? Seems more direct and less dog-whistle-ish.

How?

Yep, I’m in compete agreement on neoliberalism.

Do not confuse the politico landscape with academic definitions.

My guess is we disagree on which makes a difference in the world, Not you personally (I just don’t know), but I usually find Marxism a refuge for those disconnected from reality. It’s so boring, having been hashed out enumerable times. Plus it has never existed in reality, and never will because it does not account for realities of human nature.

The proletariat dunks again.

In whatever you call the systems of nearly every corner of the modern world. Because they are all hybrids and usually contain some degree of these elements. Discussion pure versions of any economic system is an academic exercise and only tangentially related to reality.

Many non-liberals support capitalism. Ipso facto your definition is useless and obviously has meaning to you beyond the quip. Words are fun!

Are they unique to capitalism?

I provided a less vauge defintion than you. How am I to understand a defintion that is no more than a quip?

Words only have meaning if their definition is agreed upon. My definition follows this description:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

I’m sure you’ll make up more crap, your own words and definitions to weaponize, honing your “posting skills”, dunking all the way to… Valhalla? All the while making no difference.

Like “liberals” you throw around. Hypocrisy runs deep in your community. (look I can also employ the us versus them super smart trickery! We are so smart, they are so dumb, let’s laugh at them!)

Yup. There is only so many ways to say the shit far outweighs the roses. There’s lots of hand wringing because a slim minority of thoughtful posts come from an otherwise pool of bile. You can support lgbtq folks and still be an asshole, as repeatedly proven by that community. The feature to block the crypto neofacist tanker incel hexturds cannot arrive fast enough.