frshgts

By this logic, no one is ever allowed to ask for more except for the person who has the least. It is nonsense.

yes i think happiness is meaningful and in a just world would be a non-negotiable part of participating in society (economically or otherwise)

I've been on both ends of the this little spectrum here fairly recently and i can tell you the difference aint as big as its cracked up to be. The division here is sown on purpose. I dare you to ask for what purpose that is.

yeah, some people - wanting to derive some enjoyment and meaning from the work they spend most of their lives doing to further enrich someone who is already rich - like give the calvinism a break am i right folks?

The difference between those numbers is not as big as you think. When you compare those figures to the people with actual capital, it becomes apparent people who make 150k a year are in the same boat as those making 50k. We're all a few bad rolls of the dice away from poverty, which makes us all similarly vulnerable to exploitation. We should be working together.

Someone else doing something bad (or worse) doesn't negate all other bad things.

No need to read past "Math 2.0".

Invisible Cities is a book.

Welcome to America. Our legal system is heavily biased towards parties with more resources.

What could go wrong?

Anthropic will pull a PHP and skip '6' to go straight to '7'.

People moved out of the cities during COVID because close physical proximity to large numbers of strangers was a potentially deadly hazard to their health.

Having seen how these things are implemented in the field, your lack of confidence is definitely well placed. Most of these things send your denial request to /dev/null

I recently spoke with an engineer who was building a product using the information he is able to acquire from these data brokers. This includes every search query you've ever made, anything you've purchased with a credit card, and anything that is in the public record (i.e. a pending divorce case, or child custody dispute). He uses that information to generate a profile on leads to determine how much they can squeeze from this person in whatever deal they are making. (I'm not going to get more specific than that.) This person had no incentive to lie to me about what they were building.

The data trail you are creating is much more personal and invasive than you want to imagine, and in the wrong hands it could be used to devastating effect.

How else but the signal could it determine whether the user is an adult or not?