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Say what you will about Google but at least it's not a complete fucking parasite on society and the economy like a hedge fund.
by spoonjim 4y ago
Say what you will about Google but at least it's not a complete fucking parasite on society and the economy like a hedge fund.
- halffaday 4y agoI don’t know if writing software as an incidental expense to efficiently allocate capital is actually worse than writing software as an incidental expense to conduct mass surveillance to trick old and poor people into clicking ads.
- spoonjim 4y agoIt's not intellectually honest to weigh Google's worst actions (like tricking poor people into clicking on ads, when they would obviously much rather trick rich people to click on ads) without also weighing their contributions to the world, of which the hedge fund has none.
- pjmlp 4y agoNah, it just does data mining across all their platforms to feed their ads infrastructure, what is wrong about that.