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Oh no, it does matter a lot. Would you want to grow up in a cartoon world with Google execs owning all they keys to your reality? Believe me, it matters for Go
by blackhaz 3y ago
Oh no, it does matter a lot. Would you want to grow up in a cartoon world with Google execs owning all they keys to your reality?
Believe me, it matters for Google and other big tech who create this layer of abstraction between the reality and their customers. Because it matters for their bottom line. Initially the motive may have been totally benign, like making things easier. But the fact that they are profit-oriented corporations incentivizes them to deepen the abstraction further.
The end result? Google execs owning your skills and your data - they pwn you. You don't know how reality works anymore. You want to find a job? Pay Google. You want to store a photo? Pay Google. Wanna call someone? Pay Google. Want to draw something? Pay Google. Want to develop an app so you could at least have this feeling that you could draw something without paying Google? Pay Google.
They are going to be your overlords.
- op00to 3y agoMy life is already owned by banks, insurance companies, my children, my spouse. What’s one more overlord? Frankly knowing folks who work at Google, I do not have a lot of confidence that they will succeed at much of anything but selling ads and making money.
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago> My life is already owned by banks, insurance companies, my children, my spouse. What’s one more overlord? Greater societal inequality.