"Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trillion dollar companies because data is the most valuable resource in the world, and Alexa is among the wor

"Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trillion dollar companies because data is the most valuable resource in the world, and Alexa is among the world’s greatest data collectors." ... the value of which is a massive bubble due to the (mistaken) notion that if we just pile up enough garbage we can somehow wring gold from it. The gold, of course, being the ability to manipulate people into buying a different type of garbage.