> You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter.
Why ought you? That sounds not only incredibly entitled, but also extremely one sided. The world isn’t being created for your convenience and wallet. It would be better if the bias was explicit, like “I would prefer to be able to get all information free of charge,” in which case honesty and audacity are clear.
This reminds me of the old hacker cry “information wants to be free,” which of course anthropomorphizes information and hides the bias, which is the hacker wants all information independent of everyone else’s concern.
> You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter.
Why ought you? That sounds not only incredibly entitled, but also extremely one sided. The world isn’t being created for your convenience and wallet. It would be better if the bias was explicit, like “I would prefer to be able to get all information free of charge,” in which case honesty and audacity are clear.
This reminds me of the old hacker cry “information wants to be free,” which of course anthropomorphizes information and hides the bias, which is the hacker wants all information independent of everyone else’s concern.