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I have bad news for you if you happen to play maybe Skyrim or Cyberpunk 2077 or any Source game... or damn near any game, ever, or ever download literally any game from Steam...
they all use compressed file archive formats with their own decompression / streaming methods to fit more shit in less space on your hard drive / game disc. when you download a game, Steam auto encapsulates it in a compressed format, sends you those files, and then decompresses on your machine it once its all downloaded.
Yeah, I wasn't being serious. You don't have to convince me file compression is ubiquitous, but I appreciate your dedication to educating people. :)
Well, ok, but then... how is 'compression is for poor people' a joke?
It's absurdist. Like I said, file compression is ubiquitous and the reason for that is because of its undeniable utility. Thinking you can avoid file compression by being rich (by buying more storage space or network throughput) has likely NEVER occurred to anyone. I posted this joke on a comment about someone not understanding file compression at a basic level i.e. not even knowing how to use basic tools to get uncompressed files from compressed ones. The joke is taking this one step further from the perspective of someone so out of touch with the tech, that they'd rather not learn and choose the absolute worst attitude possible.