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minus-squareMatomo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up18·10 months agoIt’s fine to do that kind of work for free for the sake of creating and maintaining a nice community for something you enjoy. It’s like charity work. The problem is that there’s a big company that’s profiting massively from this ‘charity work’.
minus-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoEven then, doing charity work while forcing your wife to earn all the money and do all the chores around the house is questionable
minus-squareDeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoYou saying a for profit business cannot have volunteers because it’s akin to labor without pay? That’s anti capitalist and pro workers.
minus-squaremagnetosphere@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoYes. When volunteers work for free to filter the content that reddit owns, reddit’s product becomes more valuable.
minus-squareIzzy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoEven using Reddit by commenting or creating posts is doing free work to the financial benefit of Reddit the corporation.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·10 months agoReddit makes something like a dollar fifty per user, per year. They’re not actually making a huge amount of money off their user base.
It’s fine to do that kind of work for free for the sake of creating and maintaining a nice community for something you enjoy. It’s like charity work.
The problem is that there’s a big company that’s profiting massively from this ‘charity work’.
Even then, doing charity work while forcing your wife to earn all the money and do all the chores around the house is questionable
You saying a for profit business cannot have volunteers because it’s akin to labor without pay? That’s anti capitalist and pro workers.
Profiting?
Yes. When volunteers work for free to filter the content that reddit owns, reddit’s product becomes more valuable.
Even using Reddit by commenting or creating posts is doing free work to the financial benefit of Reddit the corporation.
Reddit makes something like a dollar fifty per user, per year. They’re not actually making a huge amount of money off their user base.