This is literally an AI artefact. There's every chance someone reading this understands its contents better than the author. What a joke.

From a Bayesian perspective he has no reason to admit otherwise. More people on the hook for a grift is better than fewer people on the hook for a grift.

I’d say the balancing factor tends to be effort. We are, as living creatures, lazy. That’s how you survive. The level of empathy you need to acquire before the suffering of a chicken you will never meet is going to compete with your desire to eat easily available delicious food made from them is going to have to be very high.

And once you make your choice you’re not going to internalise the idea that you are knowingly operating from a moral code informed by an acceptance of laziness are you? That conflicts with the self identity of being a rational and good person.

You also have the genetic capability to procreate with your mother

What a false comparison - unprocessed meat vs processed non-meat. I’m sorry if your lack of food diversity growing up has made you sensitive to beans but you would certainly survive just fine as and when meat was not available. People can live off nothing but potatoes when necessary - ask the Irish. Though it’s also not good to rely on a single type of food - also ask the Irish.

It’s comfort convenience and pleasure. If you could moderate those things in the face of moral responsibility towards other animals then you would indeed stop eating meat. Though it’s a lot easier to pretend it’s not your choice isn’t it?

I should say I eat meat occasionally. And I use technology from companies destroying the world and buy products from companies owned by people I despise. I do not live up to my own ideal ethics and neither do 99% of humans who ever lived. Accepting moral truths does not require you to be morally perfect. It’s a direction to pull towards not a binary measurement of if you’re a valid person.

I went from Tidal to Apple. They're both fine. The main takeaway is when you switch platform it takes a number of months before the recommendation algorithm becomes useful. But there's tools you can use to jump between providers, it's less hard than most people think.

Also buying on bandcamp. I'd never pirate music from an artist who I know is struggling to make the numbers work - I need them to keep making music.

because for some time spotify was cheap, easy and useful so people were happy to pay

it's fast become less of each of these and relies more on playlist lockin

They need to make this provider agnostic somehow. That would be amazing.

they do at least make it very easy to migrate away

closed source security products are a contradiction in terms