Mike Stand
Silver Member
Well, sort of. The platform they built and marketed allows them to sell advertising. By it's nature, it's agnostic towards the actual content and it's more accurate to just say that google advertises on their own platform that some users may upload copyrighted content to despite efforts to prevent.
Are you serious? Google makes money simply by operating a virtual sphere for advertisers, the content just happens to be there? But hey, of course the content has no bearing on the commercial succes of the platform... content, who needs it after all?
You either did not read one of my previous replies or you are just outright ignoring the point I made:
The content is the key, who goes online just to stare at adverts?
Nobody is entitled to a wage, living or otherwise. You either sell a good/service relative to it's supply/demand/value, or you work for someone else who will pay you a wage corresponding to the value they assign your work tasks.
In the best possible case this statement could be taken as a cold, calculating, economics-based evaluation.
In the worst case it is just cold, cynical and lacking in a basic consideration of the human element in society. You know, human beings? The ones that kind of constitute society? Not units, or robots, or spreadsheets...
I prefer to be level-headed in these debates but your statement has hit a nerve. Admittedly, I'm interpreting your words in a certain manner, but only because the tone of your posts as well as a number of your statements seem to lean heavily towards a notion or "free market über alles".
I'm not keen on the ideas that elevate economics to a such a dominant and overriding position in society that it undermines basic human decency.
I'm no historian but I'm aware that this kind of approach has led to reprehensible decisions in the past. Irish Potato Famine ring a bell? Ireland was under the control of the British Empire then which decided not to intervene in any serious manner in the ongoing humanitarian crisis. They argued that the "market would sort itself out". What the hell?
Either we decide that we live in a civilised society, or we opt for the "wild west economics" where it's every person for themselves.