The pattern of human behavior is comparable in those cases, in context of your questions.liquidsound wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 4:08 pmThe only minor difference here, based on your essay, is that we are talking about a DAW rather than the destiny of civilization.N__K wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:43 amIf I understand you correctly, you suggest to wait and see if a bad thing happens to you, instead of trying to prevent it?liquidsound wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:44 pm [...]
Obviously it’s an issue that you can prevent before buying the software or dealing with the dilemma if the policy changes “after” the purchase. The dilemma is only really experienced if the worse scenario eventually unfolds while you are using it.
So you either switch “now” to prevent something that “will” or “will not” happen, or you switch later when the dilemma comes into existence.
So… why switching earlier (without facts) rather than when it’s real?
The outcome is the same but one is based on speculations.
If so, I can think of a country right now in which, for the last 30 years, people seem to have thought along those lines. Now they are learning the hard way about the importance (and various meanings of) being an independent state, capable of looking after and defending their own interests within their internationally recognized borders.
Supposedly, a wise person/tribe/etc. would want to avoid getting into arrangements which are not beneficial to them, instead of waiting for unpleasant things to happen to them.
Albeit, nowadays I seriously wonder whether a large portion of any human population is somehow unavoidably predisposed to short-term stupidity and herd mentality comparable to that of prey animals; with capacity to learn (in the sense of acquiring long-term wisdom) tied to having personally experienced various downsides of life - if even then.
Many of us left the plane while those companies are still here giving activations.
Relax…
Another aspect is that in some sense, having to at all activate a tool you paid for is a case of "guilty until proven innocent".
That's literally what happens when you have to activate an app like Ableton Live or FL Studio (v21+): you are considered a thief by default, and only after activation you are considered not a thief.
Many of us are so used to it happening that questioning it does not even come to mind. And even as this sentence is being read, arguments about how I am blowing it out of proportions and/or specific context - and how it supposedly cannot be any other way - are forming in minds of some readers. To pre-empt some of the silliness: I know why that is, and I'm not expecting it to change in the near future.
But the phenomenon is worth thinking about. Is it good, in the long run, to allow things like that to become permanent threads in the fabric of our societies?
