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  • It’s the de facto standard for many reasons, none of them being individuals’ choices. Microsoft paid and pushed for Windows to become the default OS on pretty much all OEM hardware, they lobbied super hard to push people into using Office, they gave massive discounts on licences for corporations, big and small companies.

    It has nothing to do with individual choices, it created the problem you mentioned in your comment though. People just became complacent and ignorant because of that, not the other way around.


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    I never said anything about human nature, you just assumed that from my 10 lines of comment. That’s a lot of words to just say that we basically agree ? You’re just being weirdly condescending about it. Also, the UK is still a neo liberal country, I never claimed the opposite. It just started earlier than others, maybe I didn’t convert that thought in my comment.

    Thanks for the lesson, that was interesting, but you should definitely keep the condescending tone down.


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    I mean, look around you, France, Germany, the UK. They used to be pretty stable, with an okay redistribution system. And then, one law after another, some people got insanely wealthy, started lobbying for cuts left and right because they could afford it, and now they’re funding fascist propaganda. Some earlier than others, the UK was during Thatcher, France is currently going full neo liberal.

    What happened in the Weimar Republic is somewhat similar too, the industrial complexes and the bourgeoisie helped the Nazis gain power.