What’s silly is using economic understanding and moral conventions developed around excludable, rivalrous goods to think about non-rivalrous, pseudo-excludable goods.

I’d say you have it backwards.  Being able to protest as they did is a luxury.  One they took advantage of. 

...  Its odd you think declining an RSVP is more effective protest than a walk out.

Well information about *right now* is also way more accessible. As is the ability to produce and distribute media. No need to have it all throttled by institutions run by the older generations. Just countless data on what everyone is doing now.

“ hasn’t even released that feature yet”

especially now nearly every other launcher is integrated into GOG 2.0. TBH i mainly use steam though because of the ease of organizing custom categories for my library.

and the world will go on and developers will be fine because non-rivalrous goods dont need to capture every bit of possible producer surplus to be profitable and flourish

And? Who cares. GOG was founded by people operating in post communist poland in a market where copyright enforcement was a joke and they competed against rampant piracy. People will pay even if they dont have to. Contrary to dogshit pop econ psychology, “unrepentant, selfish, petty thief” is not the default

Countless paintings have names much more relevant than what they were titled. Same with music. The authorial naming conventions of modernity are recent history.

this is an amazing bit of serendipity

“ there’s just too much evidence that it’s wrong.”

“definitive” rules in the English language. Good joke

gl with with the braindead prescriptivism.  

The Freakonomics approach to moral choices.  “Haha look at the unintended consequences the only right choice is to be a glibertarian”

“ that *knocking out a reporter* is consistent to playing a paragon of virtue.”

“While the ban seems incredibly harsh,”

> compensation is based on the level of your competitors, not based on different rules or anything.

“Politics is how we express political beliefs or interact and determine rules of governance.”

Why should equal wages within a job be expected? That is clearly political. The arguments for wage inequality, within or without a job category, are quite simple and widely believed. (Not by me.)

Even agreement is defined by the conventions or institutions that broker the agreement and the exclusions which are assumed in order to define the community that is in agreement. Which is to say its still political. Sorry my Ranciere and Badiou is showing