Comment by RobotToaster
4 days ago
It's parasitic, not productive.
A tick can contain a lot of blood, doesn't mean it produced that blood.
4 days ago
It's parasitic, not productive.
A tick can contain a lot of blood, doesn't mean it produced that blood.
Ticks do not require the consent of the host to drink blood.
Things like Google and Facebook cannot be parasitic, every dollar gained is a voluntary exchange with no threats. People choose to use Google and gain something from doing so.
Yep if the host agreed to die, then the market is a success. We've discovered the most efficient outcome – sucking the customer dry until they die! Thank you to the free market for delivering us this efficient result.
Remember kids – thousands dying from lack of healthcare isn't a bug of the system, it's a feature. This has been determined as necessary, nay even beneficial, by market forces that can never be wrong.
Hackernews has finally declined to the level of reddit. :(