They pay taxes at least.

Chances are that your banking apps will not work on any OS that isn’t maintained by Google.

I see hive mind stupidity is alive and well as your completely factual statement is downvoted by absolute morons.

In Canada, when one of the three cellphone carriers raise their prices, the other two raise theirs immediately.

No AI is gonna pick up a drill and some screws and put together these cabinets I’m installing today. In fact AI has zero use cases for me in construction. Absolutely nothing it can do.

It’s not unpopular, it’s just that on Lemmy and in tech circles, it’s not cool to pay for things. Cool people steal content they have no rights to because they like doing crime and not having consequences. I’m a carpenter, and I work hard for a living, so I value work and my ethics are to reward others for their work. Pirates don’t see the world that way, no matter what bullshit they spew about how horrible a company is or how it doesn’t deserve to be paid. Your not alone, but it might seem that way on Lemmy.