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comment by ooli
ooli  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The bounty of the tech industry

Human are great at exploiting value

Nobles made thousand of gold coin at using forced farm labor. Cheap price for military protection

Coton industry made million at exploiting slave labor. Slavery is barely a nuisance

Coal industry made million at exploiting child labor

Modern industries made million at using cheap labor force

Data mining company make billion at using user input

Progress is so nice anyway. I mean, look at all the thing we can buy

The guys is right: Privacy theft is objectively a small price to pay to buy the new phone delivered in 24h. And to see pic of my friend's cats freely.

BUT... I wonder why he list google as provider of all Knowledge in the world instead of Wikipedia

And youtube as entertainment Paradise instead of reddit, or the thousand of personal page you could find (once)

And why he define progress by stuff being free, and not about improvement of health, justice, equity. May be google, or fb didn't help so much on that front (I mean, beside the nice virtue-signaling doodle of the day)

Or the guy is perhaps a tad biased on its priorities? I realy dont care for my privacy if it's for more Wikipedia around and less of google or amazon. I guess I'm biased too