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>What track record?

Tech company. Automation. Advertising.

Do they need to be skinning puppies or something?



Right so how does "Tech company. Automation. Advertising." become "Google has a track record of collecting data totally unrelated to its core business and using it to inform advertising."

If there's a track record of this, you can give other examples of how Google has done that, right? Where they've gone out and collected data under the guise of doing something benign and then used it for advertisements.


The track record is that of them being morally bankrupt. Not a track record of having applied their moral bankruptcy to this particular scenario as of yet.


The how does "Tech company. Automation. Advertising." Imply morally bankrupt?


Tech company = making the world more digital. Perverting humanity. Moving us further away from our natural state. Ripping away any innate semblance of purpose we had.

Automation = Removing the stand in sense of purpose people had found in the modern world. Increasing inequality. Increasing the needed level of education to be productive.

Advertising = creates and reinforces wants. Makes people unhappy with what they already have. Causes them to then have to seek to be productive which is bad because of the previous two.


One wonders what pleasure austhrow743 might derive from reading HN if not interested in tech.


I am interested in tech. I don't believe it's morally good.


I sure do hate how technology moved me away from my natural state of... checks notes... dying in childbirth.

I think the net this criticism casts is too wide.


If you died in childbirth then you wouldn't be around to dwell upon it would you?


This would be a net negative for me. But then, if this technology weren't all here we wouldn't even be having this discussion.




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