3 Get a government bailout and then walk away with the profits

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Same as it ever was. Line must go up.
1- make good product, make money
2 - make product worse/charge for standard features
3 - cripple existing products, force people to buy new version

Xai SpaceX RamX CyberRam10! For the finest computer crashes you’ve ever seen!

You know, when the government takes your money and gives it to corporations… corporate taxes!

I could build giant fireworks for 242 million!

Corporate taxes? Is that like military intelligence?

But our amazing big brother is gonna take care of us all! They only want what’s best for billionaires! I mean Russia! Crap no best for America! That’s the word!

Alright now you’ve crossed over into impossible science fiction

There will always be idiot pedestrians and bicyclists, what about those?

They could even make them underground so they don’t clog up the city!

Psh you youngsters with your fancy serial ports! Tin cans with string were good enough for my grandparents and they’re good enough for me!

How dare you not run out and buy a brand new, well, EVERYTHING every single year! Do you want the communists to win?

Curse of agony and corruption spells were the thing before they got nerfed

Neither did WOW ones, every time I’d complete an impossible task and get my reward they’d nerf it and start giving it away the next week

AHHH! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! I’M TOO LOW LEVEL TO DIE!! sorry ptsd kicked in there

But the hackers! They could hijack your tv and make you watch something boring!

I grew up an apple fanboy but in my early twenties I realized I couldn’t afford to stay one. Since the iPhone came out they’ve gotten more and more closed off and hard to modify. The last straw for me was realizing you couldn’t install older versions of software (someone gave me a 1st or 2nd Gen iPad) and I couldn’t even put an older version of home assistant on it. That really showed me how hard they push for “you must buy the newest thing” because they’ll deliberately break the old one