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I urge you to step back and look at your comment, which is essentially "tracking as a business model is morally justified because it means that poor people can
by wzdd 3y ago
I urge you to step back and look at your comment, which is essentially "tracking as a business model is morally justified because it means that poor people can use Google", and think about other, potentially significantly more efficient, ways that this problem might be solved without needing to preserve the bottom-of-the-barrel status quo.
- lisper 3y ago> tracking as a business model is morally justified because it means that poor people can use Google No, that's not my position. My position is: tracking as a business model is morally justified if it is done with informed consent. A business arrangement is morally justified even if it has potentially deleterious side-effects to one of the parties so long as it is entered into with informed consent. People buy and sell tobacco and firearms and motorcycles and junk food despite the fact that these products potentially have negative impacts on people's lives that are at least as serious as tracking. One could argue (and some do) that selling Coca Cola is not morally justified, but that position is hardly the slam-dunk that you imply.