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right, because they're the ones stealing the passports. same as the white ICE agents

I've never heard of white Americans having their passports stolen as a job requirement

Valve could literally ban gambling on all Steam games if they wanted to. stop playing devil's advocate for billionaires, Gaben has enough yachts already

yeah, you use cemu to play

the multiplayer mod for BOTW

most musicians are starving rn because of IP law and label monopolies on the industry. expecting this system to feed their bellies is the textbook definition of an idolized world

if I started selling merch with their brand on my website, none of that money would go to the band or pay their bills.

how does IP law stop that though? most art theft is done by large media conglomerates. it's similar to worrying about petty theft when most theft is caused by employers stealing wages. the only way to enforce your property is to have a better lawyer than the media conglomerates violating your copyright, or to get lucky with a judge that can sympathize with your plight.

However, as long as we continue to love in a world where basic necessities and dignity are not guaranteed, there needs to be something that allows those creators to protect their income from leaving, and publishing to the public domain does not accomplish this.

you're right, and I didn't mean to imply that making your work public would solve the issue of capitalist exploitation of artists. the way to solve it is to unionize, build mutual aid societies for your fans to donate to you, build more food banks, join a tenant's union, making housing free or decriminalizing squatting. things like giving people a universal living standard instead of making them rely on money and predatory systems to survive

most musicians don't pay rent with IP actually. they do it by going on tours and selling merch at said events. they could keep selling their merch even if they made the designs public domain

that label exists already, it's called BitTorrent. no need to go on the dark web. there are artists who "leak" their own music on there either for revenge against their label or because they don't wanna exclude their poor fans from enjoying the art

why I mention prepping and mutual aid strategies is because you can't pay for daily living expenses if there are no jobs and food becomes unaffordable. in 2008 millions of people became homeless so we need to learn from them how they survived

I believe they're referring to stock money not being real money since regular citizens have no power over whether that money disappears overnight or not. only billionaires do. nobody is criticizing your personal savings and idk why you'd take it that way. although during depressions that money might become inaccessible as well due to mass cash withdrawals

look up the many people who had their money held up arbitrarily due to surveillance algorithms gone wrong. I couldn't access a small donation I really needed at the time because of this