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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be clear, here is what I mean by rent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems to be mainly about property owners not getting enough rent.

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  • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure you have understood that people don’t want to profit from their data, they want to avoid corporations stealing their private texts and pictures to train models they’ll profit from.

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this some weak attempt at gaslighting? If you want to make a career out of this, you really need to up your game. I mean, can you imagine some think tank going: Landlords don’t want to profit from those apartments, they just want to avoid people squatting in them for free.

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      • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your problem is that the landlord analogy just doesn’t suit this situation.

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