• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      It gets even better: how the taxing system is generally tuned (due to socioeconomic fallacies and even in “healthy” economies), it builds a barrier of entry into getting really rich. Once you’re over it, you pay less taxes to get even richer and you wont get poorer. This is literally a filtering system for

      • high nobility
      • lower nobility
      • commoner
      • serfs
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      Why did we let them collect personal data? Why did we allow them to aggregate personal data? We did we allow deanonymization of data? Why are we allowing people to walk around with surveilance cameras in public?

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        Collecting personal data predates the internet and social media. The technology just makes it easier and much more dangerous.

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          I would definitely say most do not know how harmful these corporations are. Most people expect dangerous things to be illegal, or self evident like knives and guns. These are neither. Same with every other danger that magically goes unregulated or deregulated any time a piece of shit dumbass conservative gets power…

          Because morons don’t understand dangers. Especially ones that are not self-evident.

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      Yep, most people are painfully stupid and wouldn’t understand the problem even if you explained the details to them.

      I think the best way is to spell out the creep factor in the simplest terms possible, and a way I’ve heard recently that I really like is:

      “I don’t worry about the people who want to close their blinds, but those that want to peep through concern me greatly.”