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> Corporations are never truly your friends and should be treated accordingly. For some reason, we once believed that tech companies were different, but in real
by xdavidliu 2y ago
> Corporations are never truly your friends and should be treated accordingly. For some reason, we once believed that tech companies were different, but in reality, it was always just a more sophisticated facade.
Are those companies you listed counterexamples to this?
- Gud 2y agoActually I agree wholeheartedly with the above statement. But I also believe that some companies will be more predatory in their actions depending on what’s their source of revenue, size of company, leadership etc. I would say Google in 2000 is very different from Google 2025. Back then Google seemed to me like an ally, maybe not a friend, but definitely we were on the same side. As soon as they became an ad company instead of a search engine, it slowly went down hill. Now I treat Google as part of the global elites surveillance machine instead of a trusted ally. The problem is, how do you make profit online without slipping into predatory action? How do you build an organisation resistant to this?