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Microsoft? Anti-Trust bundling violations? What year is this?? 1996‽

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Oooh, nice interrobang.

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Didn’t know that character existed. Definitely going in the rotation.

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Really‽

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I WISH it were 1996!!!

…please take me back to the 90s…I don’t like being old.

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86 points

Great, do health insurance companies now, with their “vertical integration” (we own all the things you need, so fuck you).

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Let’s unbundle health insurance from your employer. You shouldn’t be tied to a shitty job just so you can go to a doctor.

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Yes, also that.

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But then how can the owner class trap workers into abusive jobs while also ensuring no one has the audacity to start their own company and become financially independent? Won’t someone think of the shareholders?

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Leave your job and lose your insurance. Everything is 100x cheaper that way. Doctors charge very little for cash paying customers. Emergency rooms and urgent cares just write off most of it to charity and charge you a bit if anything at all. The most I’ve paid for is lab work, but that’s a few and far between and still only like 500 bucks for a full panel.

YMMV. I’ve been doing this for three years and have paid less in TOTAL than private insurance wants for ONE MONTH.

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The problem with this is if you have any actual significant health condition.

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5 points

Bill Gates about to get extremely friendly with the Trump Administration.

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does he still have much to do with Microsoft?

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No.

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He owns 1% of all Microsoft shares which are worth tens of billions.

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17 points

The dickhead you’re looking for is now called Satya Nadella.

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3 points

That dude is a creep… Ruined Windows

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The way my Surface Pro was packaged I can completely understand this, all the cardboard was pulled open at one side.

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They lost it last time, and they will lose it again

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