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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLowder" data-source="post: 9709210" data-attributes="member: 28003">Yes, the world is bigger than me. It includes people who think all businesses are predatory. It includes people who run publishers and distributors who get in trouble and pass, through malice or incompetence, as much of that damage on to business partners as possible, typically shrugging all the damage off as "just business." (That's the surest sign malice was involved.) There are people who look at those types of predators harming creative companies that have done good work and struggled to treat creators and business partners well for decades and shrug it off because "no one will perish."If someone is aware of others and is capable of even the smallest amount of empathy, those callous hot takes ("a quickly produced, strongly worded, and often deliberately provocative or sensational opinion or reaction"--Merriam-Webster), especially when offered in public or semi-public forums frequented by the people directly harmed by the events under discussion, are always going be trash. Doubly so when they try to blame the victims. These types of comments are never the flex ("an act of bragging or showing off"--again M-W, free online) the people posting them seem to think.I hope that clears that up for you.</blockquote>