[SSJPython]

Why is something so essential, so basic, like the weather forecast being privatized? Why is everything becoming so shit?

[masklinn]

Because nothing can exist in America if middlemen don’t make money out of it, the more the better.

You can see a literal example of that thinking in the comments of _heimdall for whom valuable commons are unexploited business cases.

[CamperBob2]

Because stupid people are easy to herd to the polls.

[swyx]

because good data costs money?

how would you feel if you were the SWE on the other side of this API and people demand it for free

[gaws]

Everything's getting more expensive, and people need to get paid.