To be clear, the billionaires are not the 1%.
There are only ~900 billionaires in the US. That’s the top 0.000003%

Your well paid doctors, lawers, engineers, etc. are in the 1% and still firmly part of the consumer class.

You know there are a lot of bald hairdressers, stylists, and barbers.

I wouldn’t recognize it. I’ve never watched a soap opera.
If it came from a Sci-Fi space opera, good chance I’d recognize it, and think it was fantastic.

It all boils down to two basic principles.
Radical honesty and accountability.
That’s the only way anyone builds trust.

Probably

Does it matter?
Probably not

Your search engine in a very real way is your internet. Nearly everything you see online starts there.

If you aren’t paying for it, someone else is. And the reason they’re paying, is to make sure you get the internet they want; Not the one you want. If you want the internet to be what you want, you have to be the one to pay for it.

I don’t know where you live, but in most of the developed world $10 is roughly the cost of a single lunch. Not even a fancy one. What’s worth more to you? An inexpensive lunch? Or making sure the internet you see in your search, is what you want to see, instead of what someone else wants you to see?

Because the director tells us to, so people can see our discomfort without having to say “I really really really need to pee.”

Since Amazon now owns James Bond, I’d bet they’ll be an Amazon Prime.

I wouldn’t call it being lazy when one app already contains your payment details, and is a familiar interface. Why go through the hassle of ordering on the restaurant site, which may not allow ordering without an account or have a horrid order portal?

Because they charge more, and the local business gets less of it.
But I may not be the one to ask, I just pick up the pizza myself.

Within the context of a story understood to fiction:

Smiting and wrath are actions. They don’t require emotions exactly. Break the rules, get punished. Fork around on a ladder, find out how fast the ground moves. Not because the ladder is angry, but because you forked up.

Being “upset” could simply be people writing about their own understanding of God. Remember it was all written by people. And not like they were copying words as God literally dictated them. But through “revelation”. They were “given” “understanding”. As in the ideas kind of miraculously kind of popped onto their heads. So it’s all limited to what they could comprehend.

Knowing nothing about the situation, I can see at least couple interpretations of what this might be saying.

You need to post a link for that. The image doesn’t help anyone

That’s where the philosophical argument comes in.
If you don’t want to see something or comment on it, that’s your choice. But it’s not a choice you should be able to make for others. They have the right to express themselves, just as you do. You wouldn’t be happy if someone silenced you. If they trashed you and you couldn’t respond because they “blocked” you.

Is it?
Everything is inherently public. Every post and comment is available to anyone with an account and everyone without one. All one would have to do is log out to see all your stuff again. You can’t really block people from seeing you, when everything is always public.

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Ever see Star Trek?
A lot like that.

I always like to point out that they were originally called Generation Me. They were the first generation studied, who were more concerned with self fulfilment, than social responsibility.

People need to get used to paying for things online.
If more people are willing to do it, the cheaper it can be for each of us.

If your news is free, it’s trying to sell you something.

Tanks aren’t fast and they don’t hide well.
They can’t stop you. They just have to follow you until you run out of fuel, as you said.

My D&D group literally spent time in a Walmart Dread Realm.