Slop.

providing so many features for free makes it very hard for any chess business to charge for its services

good, fuck off lol

Still, if you put the benefits aside

This framing is so bad lol

NOOOOO you can't just make things and give them to people, you're supposed to make things and then hold the things hostage for money nooooo

The opportunities that never get built because it stops making economic sense to try

Less concerned Einstein's brain, lived and died in sweatshops etc

The focus of every ounce of my career that isn't put towards money for survival is to undercut these fuckers with FOSS. I want to do a shitload of exactly what this loser is complaining about

With our innovative pay-per-move system, we incentivize players to win matches faster, thus encouraging them to get even better!

I hate when nerds reinvent medieval enclosure and pretend it's more innovative now than it was when they were just starving peasants to feed sheep. Cool, he's paywalled chess and turned it into an exclusionary game that deters people from learning it. This is good for chess and isn't just him being a parasite copying the work of the community he's stealing from.

The "politics" is lgbt people btw

I can't believe these people are out here playing chess without a profit incentive.

Dude is complaining about capitalism weeding out inefficiencies in the market... The one time it does its job he hates it, amazing. I would frame this if it didn't mean I would need to rent a printer in one way or another.

I contributed to Hexbear with like 5 (five) subpar original memes. I am still waiting for someone to pay up. I suggest reinstituting downbears on a Pay-Per-Bear model, it's just econ 101.

As if modern Chess wasn't already built on the shoulders of generations of Soviet citizens

there's something fundamentally wrong with the Lichess model: it destroys the chess market

GOOD

1. Really good chess app exists for free
2. This disincentivizes tech bros from developing data-scraping chess apps that use AI to “revolutionize” chess
3. ???????
4. The professional chess scene which had existed for decades before any of this falls apart

Nothing is truly free.

that's why we're going to charge your family for this bullet

The problem with Wolfenstein 3D is someone already made it and I DESERVE TO BE THE ONE WHO MADE IT what the hell guys. I can't believe you let woke do this to me. I was going to be a millionaire.

The funny thing is that at its core, this argument isn't even that wrong if you applied it as a criticism of the structure of capitalism itself. Capitalism trends toward monopoly and monopolies will make it impossible for new competitors to get started and do innovation. It's also true that when something is available for free it stifles growth in the relevant industries, another example of this is how countries that receive food aid will develop their agricultural industry around growing cash crops because farmers won't be able to compete with the free aid.

But all of that is just an argument against having market forces decide everything in the first place. If society has the capacity in both technology and in productivity to make great services and enough goods for everyone, why would it be necessary for these things to be competed for in the first place? We can just... have free chess and food for everyone, because we have the means to do that and compensate the people who make it happen. There is literally nothing to be gained from it being a competive process.

rename this comm NOW

"Lichess sucks because i can't rent seek on it" piss baby loser

I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "Lichess"

The reason is the left's lack of consumer ethics ('play for free'' rather than 'pay then play') and, in a Carlsenian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the chess marketplace ('fastest en passant').

I hope capitalists make this argument more and more

Time to add loot boxes, skins, and gambling on chess games

Sucks to suck

It just depresses me that people's brains are so completely fucked at this point

Bro...think of all the profit that could've been...damn commies ffs

I know praising "FreePooThrowing" is as popular as ever. On the sanitation Reddit, someone shows up every second Saturday to say FreePooThrowing is the best thing that ever happened to waste disposal.

I’ve actually contributed to FreePooThrowing myself as a demonstrator and blogger. I stopped because of their ideological stance – that’s a different story. I’m not pretending FreePooThrowing hasn’t done a lot of good. In fact, my own project, PooThrowing+, wouldn’t have progressed so fast without FreePooThrowing existing.

Still, if you put the benefits aside for a moment, there’s something fundamentally wrong with the FreePooThrowing model: it destroys the poop-throwing market.

Providing so much high-velocity, premium-grade feces for free makes it very hard for any poop-throwing business to charge for its services. If businesses can’t charge, they can’t pay professional throwers properly. If professionals can’t earn enough, they’re pushed to throw in poorly-ventilated, substandard arenas. Conditions don’t improve for professionals, and that eventually leads to a less splattered, less satisfying experience for casual fans, too. That’s the vicious cycle.

Nothing is truly free. Someone always pays — with money, dignity, or the glorious, complex throws that never get built because it stopped making economic sense to try.

I don't even like chess but I played some games against LiChess Stockfish just to spite this man lmao