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It's remarkable to me that even after all the scandals and whistleblowing going on in the last decades about intelligence agencies, the US government, and big t
by subw00f 1y ago
It's remarkable to me that even after all the scandals and whistleblowing going on in the last decades about intelligence agencies, the US government, and big tech collaborating to surveil and control their own citizens or other nations, the recent, full public alignment between the big tech billionaires and the executive branch, not to mention the whole history of US imperialism, which you can boil down to violent expansion of private markets and capital to the detriment of other peoples, there are still smart people like yourself that don't question it in the slightest. In fact, embrace it. Hopefully you're benefiting directly from it, otherwise, you're just a frog getting slowly boiled in a pot of crumbling social environment. Also, did you ever ask yourself where your "preferences" or "wants" come from or how they form?
- jurking_hoff 1y ago[dead]
- terminalshort 1y agoAnd none of that is profitable. It's quite the opposite. They do it because the government forces them to do it. Big tech companies don't want to do this, and didn't do this before the spooks came knocking. This is why government regulation will only make matters worse. These things are done because of, not in spite of, the government.
- subw00f 1y agoThe government is them! Can you not see it? They are intertwined so hard, it's difficult to distinguish who wants what, because they MERGED. The state is ruled by the economic elite, and that's done via the government.
- terminalshort 1y agoIf the government were controlled by billionaires, we would be a lot more competently governed than we are. Democracy works, and I know it because the government's competence resembles its average citizen.