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The idea that cities would offer themselves up for companies with live off user data is so disturbing. Why not give them a whole cities data, I'm sure they coul
by marricks 8y ago
The idea that cities would offer themselves up for companies with live off user data is so disturbing. Why not give them a whole cities data, I'm sure they could solve it's problems! This is so emblematic of the current times. Corporate power has run amok and increasingly people are suckered into thinking they'll solve our problems.
There so many things we already have enough data to act on, college debt is going to crush the next generation, middle class wages have been stagnant for 30 years, money is continuing to concentrate to the select few giving them unmatched powers in politics... we can act on any one of those things for the cost of the tax break just passed!
That isn't the way the wind is blowing though, apparently the only road to better our lives is just surrendering more and more power to corporations who know so much better than us, and whatever tools we elect, how to solve our woes.
- jimmaswell 8y ago>college debt is going to crush the next generation I'm not really convinced. There's income-based repayment and other options for federal loans if you can't afford payments. You can even pay nothing for a while, and after that, income-based payments will be affordable even with a minimum wage job. All this assuming you couldn't find anything better with your degree.
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- jedberg 8y agoWhen you take advantage of those programs, the loan servicer doesn’t just say, “well looks like we’re gonna have to take less money on this one!” The government makes up the difference. They pay the part you’re not paying using tax dollars. How sustainable do you think those programs are when the majority of your working citizens need subsidy?
- GLjEI4YbnGD27LB 8y agoI mean, everyone should get subsidies so they can get Tulips. Tulips are necessary status symbol.
- jimmaswell 8y agoCompared to fully subsidized higher education, as is the norm in some other places, I don't think student loans ending up partially subsidized is inherently unsustainable.
- marricks 8y agoHow fucked up is it that our only tenable solution involves paying banks extra money through interest rather than just having the government pay it directly? It's more inefficient, but of course makes the banking lobby plenty happy...