It’s almost by design. Take personal computing away from the masses. Control what can be done and learned on a cloud device. More control over the masses with the benefit of a cloud computer subscription.
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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
What surprises me in all this is that multi billion dollar gaming companies never even considered intervening given how this can easily affect their bottom line.
We joke about companies being okay with everything being B2B but some industries will completely die if consumer spending collapses.
Would be nice if all their selfishness sometimes meant fighting for the consumer they make all their money from.
mursejoy@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t think multi billion dollars is enough to fight this behemoth. Especially when it has basically all the support of the corrupt government. It’s a suicide and everyone knows it.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Consumer spending is something like 68% of the US economy. I suspect that’s the case in most countries?
Consumer spending drives the US economy.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The US’s best export, so to speak, is it’s money. People in the US buy more than anywhere. It has a larger consumer market than EU, China, and India combined. That’s ridiculous to think about, a country of 350m outspending 3.5b. As much as I can’t stand trump and think everything is wrong, leveraging the US and it’s buying power is a tactic that makes sense. I wouldn’t even be mad if it was just part of some negotiation, but it coupled with obviously all the rest of the shit kinda changes the light that it’s shown in.
freely1333@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Kinda has to be for wealth to trickle up. I think they might have meant discretionary consumer spending.