> Choosing not to pirate is just an objectively wrong choice. It's a worse experience, with worse quality, worse availability, and at a higher price tag.
Choosing not to pirate and not to consume simultaneously is not necessarily a wrong choice. A difficult one? Yes. But I propose that it could be beneficial for your mental (and maybe physical) health.
This is the approach I took with most things, so you're right. But still, TV can be some of the highest quality and engaging media you can find. I mean, it's not short form slop or thinly veiled advertisment... If you look in the right places.
The winning move is not to play. The HDMI Forum (and other orgs that behave similarly) prey on our desire for the most/best/(insert superlative here). I get that there's no free lunch. It is also true you see a lot of initiatives and projects do a lot of collective good while demanding much less.
From what I remember, in past bubbles that burst, everyone thought stocks will go up forever.
So, if people are wondering out loud (with widespread traction) if there's a bubble, there's probably not one. It may be self-fulfilling. The awareness of a potential bubble influences us to be more cautious.
No, there's never been a time where everyone was saying "stocks will go up forever" then. Even in the late 90's, as momentum was accumulating towards what would eventually burst as the dot-com bubble, a Very Central Figure in the whole thing was warning about "irrational exuberance" in the market but didn't have safe tools do anything about it.
For the last most explosive bubbles -- "dot-com" (~2000) and "housing" (~2008) -- you can go back and find all sorts of warnings and critiques and fretting and skepticism in newspapers, academic and industry journals, blogs, television, personal ephemera, etc. And not too far from almost all the examples you find, you'll also find somebody blowing off the skepticism.
The tricky part is that you can more or less find similar dialog in all those sources even when there didn't turn out to be a looming collapse. There's just always people worrying about collapse or hard correction when the markets are running hot and always people blowing them off, and sometimes worriers prove right. Eventually. And sometimes they don't, and the underlying economy either catches up with the market or government policy successfully props it up for long enough that some other concern dominates or some other industry can absorb the over-allocated investment.
Basically, it turns out your heuristic for spotting a bubble faces too much noise and isn't actually all that informative at all.
Changed from Windows 10 to an Ubuntu with beefy specs. When I saw firsthand the improvement of the user experience, I felt the year of the Linux desktop is nigh.
Choosing not to pirate and not to consume simultaneously is not necessarily a wrong choice. A difficult one? Yes. But I propose that it could be beneficial for your mental (and maybe physical) health.
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