What a biased bunch of garbage.

Explain how this is good for anyone but Microsoft.

Lol… Look at you all… These corporations can do heinous shit and then toss you a treat and you come running back. Pathetic.

A lot of well reasoned discussions in these comments… And every one misses the point.

You can have change or your can have comfort.

No it’s not unfair. What I said was factual. People aren’t willing to give up their comforts in order to make real, meaningful change. It’s one of those truths that gets argued against anytime it’s said with people unwilling to admit it to themselves.

Baby, you keep giving them the money they use to fist you.

I can see the awful roads from here. Definitely Indiana.

Buddy thinks “legal” and “right” are there same thing.

Realizing you’re making mistakes and continuing anyway is the problem.

Online shopping is retail but semantics… I guess the businesses that aren’t on your list are showing profits made by ghosts then.

No you don’t understand… I’ve spent the last 30 years investing in increasingly awful software companies to create “industry standards” and leaving these companies behind would require me to change and learn!!!

I’m unsure of what you’re arguing here. Walmart continues to grow, Doordash has healthy growth, McDonald’s is still growing despite price increases, subscriptions are growing, micro transactions, cbd companies… I can literally keep going. The need to scroll and consume has hit gen Z hard and despite no “disposable income” they’re somehow pushing profits up along with any other struggling person. These minor comforts are big business.

Retail consumption isn’t growing? Buddy…

What do you spend your money on? I hear this kind of thing from lots of kids and then discover that they’ve normalized spending on things like door dash and subscription services as being essential.

Do you often interact with young people?

For there to be no disposable income these corporations are somehow making money hand over fist at every level of commerce.

I work with college students and unfortunately regardless of the cause this seems to be true. Capitalism finally got its perfect consumer.

No I just know that any reasonable argument I provide won’t change anything. Proponents of AI have a similar psychological profile to religious people. Besides if you truly wanted factual information on the differences between AI and “tools” you’d look into it. You don’t.

I’m not going to bother…

You really think a calculator and generative AI are the same thing?

You really can’t tell which is worse?