DzikiMarian

Base iPhone is midrange device, not a flagship.

Because if he's able to help anyone on SO, he very likely profited many, many times from free access to knowledge there before he got to this point. Given activity of average user he probably gained orders of magnitude more than he given.

I find rambling about money and compensation in such context distasteful.

SO provided platform which, while not perfect is used by millions of people. They aren't overloaded with ads and dark patterns as many of the clones. If it's worthless, why people are using it instead self hosted blogs for example?

Well guy complains about compensation for his "work". I assume he's ready to shell out a few dollars for when he'll need it :-)

Would you prefer SO to be paid?

No company bigger than a few tens of people has principles. They have sales KPI, that go up or down depending on marketing campaigns.

If by "responsibly" you mean strip customers of privacy under old story of protecting children then sure.

Why are you manipulating people?

That's true

I agree with your sentiment, but this thread is about communism. As someone who actually lives in post-communist country I can assure you that net effect is not what you're looking for.

Right now my life is significantly better than someone who decides to live on government welfare.

30 something years ago, when we had socialism in my country it didn't matter if you worked, got drunk or slept at work. Everybody had the same shitty flat and the same shitty products (assuming there were products at all).

This system has a lot of problems, but socialism sucked indefinitely more.

How is it different from having extra two kilograms of medical equipment in your bag?

I've no problem improving society just for the sake of it, given that everybody else also does. Sadly any bigger group of people will start getting freeloaders and I'm allergic for such BS.

EU version has review process built-in. Anyways it'll be hard to get more outdated than lightning.