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by Aerroon
1618 days ago
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>Users give their private life to Google and they get web search, email, and videos back. >In a more reasonable world users would pay money for the services they want to use. But would people actually be willing to pay? They rather use adblock and other services to circumvent ads rather than pay for YouTube premium. |
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Of course they wouldn't pay as much as they currently do. But the world would be a better place, if they didn't. In Google's case it's more indirect, but in Facebook's case it's obvious. It's well known that Facebook has a negative impact on the mental health of many. Most of the turnover created created just ruins the planet for no good. People in the Western world lived a reasonable life in let's say 1970. The same level produced with the technology of 2020 would reduce destruction of the planet a lot. We would all work 6 hours a day and in the free time we could could walk an hour to the office and an hour back. Or do something else good for physical and mental health. Without a cloud-based GPS tracker and activity cam of course because normal mortals couldn't afford those. So what? I don't see how surveillance capitalism has improved or will improve the situation in Africa either.