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Can you elaborate?

• robonerd 4y ago
  "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
  • roenxi 4y ago
    It is also difficult to get a man to understand something when you refuse to explain the thing to him.
    • robonerd 4y ago
      You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
• danaris 4y ago
  People whose livelihood currently comes from businesses whose primary source of income is in selling people's data don't want to even think about the idea that doing something else might be a better idea. There are a lot of people in tech (and, quite likely, on HN) who work for companies with such a profile. (Just for instance, everyone working for Google, Facebook, etc.) I doubt it's a majority, which is why the comment appears to have returned to a positive score, but there's certainly a strong contingent that could very well feel threatened by the idea that we might, as a society, have to abandon profiting off other people's data as a business model.