• crib@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Its actually quite disgusting - monetising on top of people doing voluntary work with zero pay.

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      1 year ago

      Welcome to capitalism. The technical term for benefiting from something that someone else paid for is cost externalization.

      The fact that Reddit has never managed to turn a profit despite receiving an annual subsidy of (at the very least) tens of millions of dollars in the form of free labor really says something about the competence of its leadership, doesn’t it.