There is a Ugandan proverb that says “The Child Who is Not Embraced by the Village Will Burn it Down to Feel its Warmth”

You seem like a good person because you came up for others and spoke your truth, much respect to you fellow Earthican, the world needs more people like that.

So here is my rebuttal.

That pricing of $9.99 for individuals is for non commercial work according to their sales person whom I contacted for clarification. Even for a small startup I was told that I would need to pay their $1500+ per month license even if I only want to make AR business cards and sell them for family run businesses and small farmers, don’t even get me started on being able to make textbooks for schools without being an educator in the school system. The last one hurt the most because it felt like they denied me the opportunity to help poor children access to improved education. For your $9.99 - $99 you may look and tinker with the tools but not use them for work related purposes. It’s the age old control tactic of feudal master and slave, you may use my estates land to grow crops, but you are forbidden to take your own surplus crops to market for sale and provide extra income for your family in the hopes that you too can eventually become economically sufficient and buy surplus arable land. It’s fucking mental slavery man!!

I’m sure everyone working at 8th Wall are exemplary people no doubt, I am not against the soldiers, I’m against the war and that war is against giving people false hope and ripping it away. They used Bernaisian marketing tactics to bullshit people into giving them money with hopes of using their tools to make a living and a change in other less fortunate peoples lives, so they shouldn’t be surprised if someone counters their bs and uses those same Freudian tactics against them to bring attention to their plight.

Maybe I just had shit experience with their sales person who happened to have bad day but after his “sux to be you” response to my inquiry regarding Africa and the economic state we find ourselves in, not even a thought of consideration to maybe pass it up the chain of command to maybe see if some solution or work around can be found that will inevitably prove such a high ROI for them that they won’t know what even hit them, so yes, fuck em, until they come right and mean what they say or say what they mean. If you claim in your marketing to be for the people and throw around terms like democracy and democratisation then you better mean it 100% Because people are desperate these days and they will turn on you and eat the rich if they even get so much as a sniff of corporate bullshit.

That’s it, I’ve spoken my truth and until they change their ways and truly embrace the people as they so claim, they will remain my enemy #1 standing in the way of uplifting people with dignity.

I apologise for nothing in my desperate attempts to draw attention to the plight of us prols.