Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Valve Is In Trouble.." video.

  1. I remember when most of the companies sending me e-mail notifications for various reasons made sure they sent me a "Support BLM" message. It creeped me out, at first. That's when I trashed my Uber account. Not long after PayPal sent that obligatory message, PayPal denied service to "problematic people" because they weren't "on-board." That's when I closed my PayPal account. That's what everyone should have done with their PayPal, but almost no one did. That's when I knew, for sure, that we were in a dystopian reality, and started making plans to move back to Idaho. Universal acceptance of "2 weeks to stop the spread" in March, 2020 was when the first thoughts of "I need to get out of here. These people are effin' crazy" came. George Floyd was in May. I was "fortunate" enough to have some serious injuries around that time, and started working from home on a temporary basis. Now I'm working from home on a permanent basis. How lucky it was to have crippling injuries! sigh Now, when we see "Your company's racial diversity is lacking," we're starting to question the people making such claims, rather than the companies being (essentially) extorted by activists. It sounds like Valve just plowed through the BS ans has come out the other side of it as one of the strongest companies going, and they should (and probably will) just shrug off the racists trying to attack them.
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  2. @jynxed66six54 Some of this is because so much of the Internet was kicked off by free, anonymous accounts, subsidized by investment capital. Transitioning from "free stuff" to fee-for-services is tricky. Some get around it by advertising revenue, which tends to make them the same as legacy media: controllable by a very few activist types (and the government). We're very new to this as a species. The marketplace is far from "organic," as it was kicked-off by big money and a lot of government money. Big Tech knows which side the butter on its bread is. Even if it's not out to control us, its paymasters are. I think that all these platforms are going to have to create some sort of mechanism by which they KNOW that their users are not bots and that they're over 18.
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