and yet they're still wildly understating the problem.
Google isn't going for a competitive advantage - their goal is to put us in an inescapable stranglehold. There's a reason @pluralistic & others refer to the way things currently work, especially (but not exclusively) in the digital realm, as #ChokepointCapitalism
"Not using Google will be a hassle" isn't an acceptable argument. We can deal with this & foot the bill it now - or pay a far steeper price later.
“Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives…Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit.”
The market isn't working for consumers or producers of creative goods and services. It's working just fine and dandy for the bloodsucking megacorps in the middle.
I keep having eyebrow raising moments reading the book #ChokepointCapitalism. This one being: the factual news is hidden behind paywalls, while the news articles based on lies are free.
I just finished the second chapter of #ChokepointCapitalism by @pluralistic and Rebecca Giblin, and I can already give this one a highly recommend. It’s one thing to be angry at the state of the world, but it’s strangely comforting to see exactly how we got here.