I wish people like spez and zuck cried themselves to sleep, but those beds of cash are probable pretty comfortable. The only real hope is that theyβre pilloried so thoroughly in history books that, at the ends of their lives, theyβre bitterly angry at the injustice of how theyβll be remembered. The good news is that this is something the public can influence. The bad news is that 99% of the public donβt give a shit. Musk might be the only one in this crop of unethical sociopaths who might ene up railing about his legacy; the rest are just going to get away with raping the public and generally recognized as being βshrewd business men.β And itβs only the men; the women who do this tend to end more poorly - fired by boards, or spending time in jail.
America is truly exceptional⦠Nonagenarian politicians serve as lawmakers of an economy they barely understand, and part of a system of legalized bribery that reinforces their lack of interest in not understanding, while septuagenarian supreme court interpets and applies laws made in the aftermath of the civil war but are free to bend the meaning of laws as their personal political biases allow, and octagenarian presidents wield extreme unchecked power.
In this system, laws against abuse of personal information and exploitation of data will only be written in 2080 or later, after many lives of common people are damaged, until it damages the life of a congressman and then change happens.
Not for the first time do I wish Lemmy had github-like responses. Up/downvotes are utterly inadequate; why didnβt Lemmy learn this lesson from Reddit?
Anyway, I love how succinctly you summed up the state weβre in. Iβve joked before that America would be well-served by the introducion of Carousel; Iβm well past the Last Day age, but the older I get, the less it becomes a joke to me. Itβd be better for the environment, too.
