• spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000’s they stopped making products “for” the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.

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      Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they’re the most profitable demographic to market to.

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      1 month ago

      shareholders

      If 0.000…01% shareholders count:

      Guessing a lotta us have a few bucks in index funds… suppose that ain’t cool, gotta find a principled fund.

      The most principled funds must only invest in like three companies cuz every corp has some problem.