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Why is something so essential, so basic, like the weather forecast being privatized? Why is everything becoming so shit?
by SSJPython 1y ago
Why is something so essential, so basic, like the weather forecast being privatized? Why is everything becoming so shit?
- CamperBob2 1y agoBecause stupid people are easy to herd to the polls.
- swyx 1y agobecause good data costs money? how would you feel if you were the SWE on the other side of this API and people demand it for free
- Vinnl 1y agoUsually the opposite of privatisation is not that something magically appears for free, but that it is funded by a state.
- monkeywork 1y agoThere is an SWE on the other side of this API - and I imagine they are enjoying a government salary and pension for operating it... people accessing it for free wouldn't impact them.
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoThis carries the same energy as arguing against "free" healthcare by claiming that doctors shouldn't be expected to work for free. Nobody is expecting anybody to work for free. We expect government to pay for it. I think you know this and pretend not to for some reason.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- masklinn 1y agoBecause nothing can exist in America if middlemen don’t make money out of it, the more the better. You can see a literal example of that thinking in the comments of _heimdall for whom valuable commons are unexploited business cases.
- gaws 1y agoEverything's getting more expensive, and people need to get paid.