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user-inactivated  ·  3681 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Price of Haggling for Your Personal Data

    That's the way the fucking world works and you can either get used to it, be an exploiter yourself, or refuse to work / give milk / use the service and deal with whatever you lose in the process.

"That's the way the fucking world works" could have been said about an awful lot of things that are no longer part of the way the world works. We aren't serfs, but both of us probably would have been in 1200, because that was the way the fucking world worked. The way the fucking world works is just what most of us agree to go along with; when enough of us stop going along with it, the fucking world works some other way.