i haven ' t seen any really convincing arguments yet as to why they didn ' t have some metadata somewhere offline for all we know they still do . so i can ' t speak to that . but . wasted years ? the fuck ? i downloaded like 5000 albums off what . those didn ' t just disappear . if you ' re one of those idiots who built up ratio just to stare at , then the site wasn ' t for you anyway . <| sep |> I know exactly what you ' re talking about ! Kinda like your head is on a balloon and your brain is operating at 25 % capacity . For me it happens when my tolerance is low and I get particularly shitfucked <| sep |> So here the thing . I can start a newspaper . Get that newspaper popular and then write thing to sway an election . I just used the power of my voting block to influence an election through a nonelected force . That easy . This is pretty easy to do an America today . Actually last time I checked Unions elect their leaders and people have to make a decision to unionize . Calling them a ' nonelected force ' seems disengenious . Also Unions serve very important places in a Capitalist ecnomy . They allow employees to make their voice heard against their employeers , they allow employees to fight for better conditions wages . In a Capitalist ecnomy there is so much incentive for a business owneroperator to marginalize the needs of their employees to increase the bottom line , freedom and association and collective bargaining are the natural checks against Business owners abuse of power in a Capitalist economy . Just take a look at Baseball before the unions or heck just read up on the history of the Industrial Revolution to understand the kind of abuses Unions defend against .