To pay for sex is a form of exploiting; the consent is not really free. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and I think that the exploitation of sex workers is one of the worst.
But morale is very subjective, and sex work is a very complex matter, where a lot of people, most of them women, work in very dangerous conditions and in situations of extreme need.
This article is a not sense. There is not a monopoly of identity: a lot of corporations and big tech have an ID about us or, at least, about me.
Also, in my case, the state have paid most of my education, my healthcare, the street where I live… nor google not other big tech have paid a dime for it.
The critic in the article has his points, but the proposed solution—using capitalist enterprises to issue IDs—is nonsense. We will lose track of people from a fiscal point of view, and it will not solve the problem of the people that not any corporation would issue an ID.
Debian has a list of vendors who sell it in a media (USB, DVD…), some of them also sell other distros.
No, you can use the debian installer without non-free-firmware (which by DFSG include firmware with binary blobs).
From that thread:
“Users who wish to disable firmware lookup entirely can do so by setting the firmware=never boot parameter. It’s an alias for the longer hw-detect/firmware-lookup=never form.”
Zx spectrum --> msx-dos --> ms-dos --dr-dos --> win95 --> Suse (before it was bought by novell) --> win98 --> debian