Is the onus on the consumer? As much as I hate to say it I am pretty judgemental when it comes to people paying for subscriptions.
While its wholly negative to have this mind set in the modern world is it such a bad thing.
Like if we were all in a Lemmy community swimming pool and 80% of lemmys where pissing in that pool would I be unjust to be mad, my thought pattern here is by people supporting the subscription model will impacts everyone and it goes further than just more subscription only content, it impacts hardware where a lot of iot device and gaming device are less about serving the enjoyable media/useful features and more offering a portal to subscription services which impacts usabilities like rooting, custom ROMs, emulation, general tinkering as now every modern console, shady iot device has some kind of encrypted lock or circumventing that lock will also attract negative attention from corpos. At what point will consumer PCs start running locked down software with a locked bootloader.
I hope I’m not doom saying just general frustration and concern for what the future will hold. And I’d like to see what the general concus is on the subject
Something, something, no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Look, I can’t buy a can of coke without possibly supporting child labor/slavery in some other country. I fill up my gas tank with a resource pulled from a murdered religious minority. I can’t take out a loan to go to school without paying interest to a banking conglomerate that is supporting the enslavement of the Uygurs.
Look deep enough and so much of what we consume is supporting things most of us deeply disagree with. Short of going off grid and growing all my own food, I have to prioritize my protests and other people spending their fun money on streaming subscriptions is way down the list. I certainly don’t blame them for it, any more than I want to be blamed for cocoa-industry slavery when I buy the ccasional chocolate bar.
“Blaming” consumers for it is just easy anger and avoidance of bigger problems.
Thanks what you said was impactful I am also working on growing my own food, would love to go off grid but land is expensive here.
Good luck to you!