I think that you guys are suckers for giving your money up to a company that doesn't give 2 shits about you or your wellbeing. Unfortunately, we live in a cutthroat capitalist society, where the wealthy will cut your throat for a dime at any opportunity available to them (as long as it will cost them less than a dime to cut your throat, and assuming that there exists a way to cut throats on a large enough scale that the overall profit is great enough to make it worth their while)... ignore that fact at your own peril. The owners of Steinberg are far richer than you or I ever will likely be, and carry only a fraction of the workload that real working people like us bear.
This is the first generation in post WWII US history that will see a lower standard of living than the previous generation, yet corporate profits are at historical all time highs. Put two and two together and figure it out. To give money to those that are already rich, if you have a workable alternative available, is idiocy.
Is it legitimate to criticize the theft of something from a rich man's overflowing storehouse, considering that almost every method by which a person can become rich involves exploitation? Is it legitimate to criticize the theft of something from the biggest thiefs on the block?
Ideally, I'd prefer to not "work the system." However, I dare any of you to not “work the system” in any way for the rest of your life. Wait and see what happens. You will be juiced for all you're worth by the rich and powerful, and then discarded.
I don't think that any human being is a waste, or that it's right to "juice" any human being. However, unfortunately, the rich and powerful do this each and every day.
I think that people whose incomes, as dictated by a brutal cutthroat system, aren't sufficient to afford a piece of software that could enrich their lives SHOULD have access to such software. Also, for people who can afford to purchase such software, I think that your money is better spent on buying, for example, vaccinations for people in Africa who die by the hundreds of thousands due to their not being able to financially afford such vaccines. The rich don’t need more money… meanwhile, millions of exploited and abused people need it desperately.
This of course raises the thought: "But if nobody buys audio software, then there will be no more audio software produced, and the employees of the audio software companies will lose their jobs."
However, if people refused to buy software thats profits went only toward making rich people richer, that does not necessarily mean that audio software would die out, or that the employees of audio software companies would no longer have work. It ONLY means that companies who function to make the rich richer will fail. However, if companies form that use their profits to the maximum extent possible to improve the quality of life of all people, then people can choose to support these type of companies through purchasing their products, and ultimately this type of company will be the only type of company that remains in existence.
Ordinary people have far more collective power than they realize, it only requires that we turn on our brains and think for ourselves, rather than subordinating our minds to dogma.
I think that you’re misguided in allying yourselves with the rich people that have their hands in your pocket daily and (directly or indirectly) rob the health and wellbeing of countless people. The common people’s best interests are diametrically opposed to the financial interests of the wealthy and powerful… that’s how it is and that’s how it always has been.
Just my 2 cents. Take it easy guys.
