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So DuckDuckGo’s “news” items all look like they’re from different publications but go through MSN.
Because, of course, DuckDuckGo is just another venture capital funded Silicon Valley tech company.
The reason you can’t have nice things is capitalism.
@aral capitalist will say exactly the opposite 
@ErikJonker I’m against the only form of capitalism I’ve known in my lifetime: the one that’s destroying the planet to ensure the survival of roughly two thousand billionaires. The one that’s the socioeconomic version of cancer.
@aral @ErikJonker and it isn't just the only form capitalism does take, it's the only form that capitalism can take.
@Outpatientzero @aral …if your target is the whole of capitalism without any specification what is OK and what’s not, every struggle against it will be futile. People want to earn money, entrepreneurs want to make profit, for a few thousand years already.
@ErikJonker @aral capitalism has only existed for a few centuries.
@Outpatientzero @aral wages for labour were paid thousands of years ago, profits were made in babylon. Or worse people were slaves.
@ErikJonker @Outpatientzero @aral And nothing of it was called Capitalism. Not in Babylon, not in Rome.
just earning money is not capitalism.
@TheOneSwit @Outpatientzero @aral what is your definition of capitalism? It matters because some people call the whole system of markets, companies, people earning wages, buyers/sellers etc. capitalism? Example of a definition "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit."
@ErikJonker @Outpatientzero @aral
The problem you ask for is that in capitalism the ultimate goal is profit no matter what. It's not about a good live for the people it's about "winning"
We can talk about a social market economy instead as exampel.