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I really wonder how we ended up here.
Why do people use mainstream social media? Why do they buy those stupid glasses? Why do they willingly feed corporations their most personal data?
Unfortunately, one has to conclude that it is, to a very large extent, people’s blatant stupidity that has led us to a point where there is now something like a new monarchy of unscrupulous billionaires - if not their stupidity, then at least their indifference, their apathy, and laziness. It’s just awful...
It gets even better: how the taxing system is generally tuned (due to socioeconomic fallacies and even in "healthy" economies), it builds a barrier of entry into getting really rich. Once you're over it, you pay less taxes to get even richer and you wont get poorer. This is literally a filtering system for
Why did we let them collect personal data? Why did we allow them to aggregate personal data? We did we allow deanonymization of data? Why are we allowing people to walk around with surveilance cameras in public?
Collecting personal data predates the internet and social media. The technology just makes it easier and much more dangerous.
It is not the people who make the laws, but their representatives, who, all too often, unfortunately do not make decisions in the people’s best interest. Nevertheless, it is indeed the people themselves who decide whether to use Twitter, speak to a voice assistant, or reveal their personal secrets in an AI chat.
Of course, it’s true that it may be appropriate to protect people from themselves, but I still think it’s also entirely appropriate to hold them accountable for their decisions and the consequences. For example, there are countless alternatives to Amazon, but people still order from there because it’s just so convenient.
In addition, people could also put pressure on their representatives if they allow themselves to be bought off by lobbyists yet again. Unfortunately, that just doesn’t happen very often.
What I'm getting at is this: None of what we're experiencing today would be possible if people didn't make it possible by buying products from companies that everyone knows are harmful to society.
I would definitely say most do not know how harmful these corporations are. Most people expect dangerous things to be illegal, or self evident like knives and guns. These are neither. Same with every other danger that magically goes unregulated or deregulated any time a piece of shit dumbass conservative gets power...
Because morons don't understand dangers. Especially ones that are not self-evident.
Yep, most people are painfully stupid and wouldn't understand the problem even if you explained the details to them.
I think the best way is to spell out the creep factor in the simplest terms possible, and a way I've heard recently that I really like is:
"I don't worry about the people who want to close their blinds, but those that want to peep through concern me greatly."