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Even in the US, a lot of TOS/T&Cs are unenforceable. It's harder to get a judge to say it, but there's case law holding a LOT of these as useless - and your point would also almost certainly come up even in a civil suit, let alone a criminal trial.

Because providing shit like sheltered shade, AC, water breaks and the like costs the company a small fraction of their profit and that's anathema to The Line, which must constantly Go Up.

If you want slightly easier, you could always just make sure Thomas Midgley Jr never works in chemical engineering. Saves humanity from both leaded gasoline and CFCs, theoretically.

See, that's the thing these guys don't want to understand. There could be a thousand generational talents like that "right fucking now*, who have these enormous gifts and won't ever be able to realize them because they gotta go to their third job so they don't fall behind on rent AGAIN.

Your Uber driver might be a virtuosic violin player who's never realized it because he's never had the opportunity to try. The cashier at Taco Bell might be an amazing painter, who can't afford to paint because every last cent has to go to one bill or another. That kid in Ghana you're watching on the TV charity commercial might be the next talent in rocketry or physics or poetry or any of a dozen other fields if they had a shot.

No no, that's too slow and slow is expensive. Time is money and we have to move faster and break more things in order to disrupt the market. /s

Capitalism doesn't have a bottom of the barrel. You can keep scraping away that bottom for decades, and you'll always find someone willing to debase themselves morally for a chance at becoming part of the aristocracy temporarily.

He already showed us this once in 2020. He had the world's softest ball thrown at him to spike his image, and he still fumbled it because his own personal belief system wouldn't let him just tell people "look, stay at home, work from home, wear masks in public until we figure this shit out" without a profit motive SOMEWHERE.

Yeah, I can't wait for my mom to figure out how to spin this one. She's already hard on the "well we're not AT WAR, so he's still following his campaign promises" train.

Blanche is literally Trump's lawyer and has been for years. That's his deal - he knows how to kiss his ass just right, and doesn't really mind that it makes him sound like a sycophantic empty-minded toady just reaching for that next rung on the ladder.

I'd be surprised if it's not uncommon. Cruise ships tend to skew older. If they mostly did cruises that catered towards elderly vacationers, I can see more than a few of them just buying it just from the law of averages.

Ah damn, I knew I had missed the market for expansionist foam.

Oh nah, if this is anything, it's another push to expand the military budget in ANOTHER bid to privatize the military, something he and his have been on for years.