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paleotn

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8. Corporations really don't care what you're doing. They don't care what I'm doing.
Sun Dec 27, 2020, 12:16 PM
Dec 2020

They care what large aggregates of people sorta kinda like us are doing so they can attempt and much of the time fail miserably at predicting what we will do next, like buy their product. One data point in a vast ocean of data points is of no interest to anyone outside of law enforcement and national security. Individually, we represent only a tiny amount of disposable income to a multi billion dollar company. Put us together with hundreds of thousands of people sorta kinda like us and then you're talking real money. Corporations don't really care about our politics that much, other than how it impacts our buying decisions. Otherwise, its an irrelevant data point taking up valuable storage space and unnecessarily complicating the issue of whether or not you and I will buy their product.

My fear isn't corporations. They're not much of a threat to individual security directly. Law enforcement and national security, in the hands of the wrong people, are most definitely a threat to individual safety and security. And they very well might care what our politics are.

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