• Avicenna@programming.dev
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    2 hours ago

    well then that means you should support wealth tax?

    I mean this guy is seriously the CEO of one of the largest tech companies on Earth. He sees that people hate surveillance and then thinks that by flaunting threats at people he can obscure the connection with surveillance and rich people, lol. He is like the Trump of the tech world.

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    3 hours ago

    A company designed for surveillance and named for surveillance devices in LOTR will cause surveillance.

    Wealth tax will just make them slightly less unimaginably rich.

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      2 hours ago

      That site is just Flock.

      The level of personal tracking is absurd.

      There’s a reason the supermarket wants you to use their app for “digital coupons”. There’s a reason they want you to scan inside the store.

      As an added bonus, big-box retail has a natural immunity to external RF, which forces you to use their wifi, which can track you down to your position in a specific aisle, how much time you spend there, your path around the store, etc.

      And then when you’re done, they know exactly what you bought because it’s linked to your store card (which is naturally linked to the app, which is tracking you around the store).

      They know what cuts of meat you like just as much as they know what kind of fungal infection you have.

      They know (roughly) what you decided not to get just as well as they know what you did get

      They know how much time you spent calculating the best deal on paper towels (the planograms have been updated to reflect this…items that people spend a lot of time contemplating are no longer facing each other in the aisle…they are always on the same side of the aisle…you won’t find PT opposite TP, you won’t find dog food opposite cat food, etc…they can track your position in the aisle but not which way you face).

      And that data is more valuable than the profits on the goods in your cart.

      Just as one example.

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    5 hours ago

    It’s him, it’s a threat, he’ll do it to recoup the money he’s paying in taxes.

    Scumbag needs a lesson

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    Good. They are starting to threaten the people of the society in which they want to live. It won’t be long now until those people are forced to start thinking they are just a business, not saviours or overlords. Just selling shit to make a few bucks, nothing more, nothing less. Tick, tock…

  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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    lmao why don’t you just audit everyone. lmao, it’s like they just want newer way to use drones to scan houses.

    You all want it for the rich but what about you and your own unaccounted for items? What happens to some of you when your unaccounted items become objects that are supposed to reflect on your income, what then? repo or audit?

    Lets think this through of what could happen to the common man. How many people are gonna get away with using gifting as an option and how many aren’t? How many of those that aren’t are going to be judged based on racial biases? How many times are they gonna use DHS alongside with this?

    How much corruption with the technology will it take before we all start protests? I don’t see anything good from this.

    I think that there needs to be people that can’t be bribed to do audits to rich people.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Nothing to see here, just planting new associations for the cultist, move along.

    Mass surveillance = i don’t like that (bad)
    Wealth tax = mass surveillance
    Wealth tax = bad

  • mHtt@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    how can humans be said to be advancing when we allow clear liabilities like this person to flourish?

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    7 hours ago

    I have not watched this interview, but I have never watched this man have a straight face, he is always high as fuck.

  • SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 hours ago

    That company is just a middle man with no technology of their own. The sooner everyone realizes this, the sooner nobody buys anything from them. Even military people realize they’re a scam grift.

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      9 hours ago

      Uhh that just gives the government more money for surveillance. You’ll get your surveillance either way, don’tcha worry.

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        Not necessarily. You tax these fuckers into the ground, and now they can’t pay to influence government like they do now. So we get back to an actual “of the people, by the people, for the people” government. Which means if the people don’t want surveillance, then it doesn’t happen.

        Frankly, I trust a government minus corruption 10000x more than any profit driven corporation.