[kryogen1c]

Sorry this is totally unrelated but it caused me to have an epiphany:

Google is not a software, hardware, or SaaS company. They are an ad-funded moonshot R&D incubator, searching only for billion dollar lightning strikes.

Every part of their business exists only to broker and sell ads or capture more market share to show ads to or to collect and trade data/Metadata for better ad targeting.

[lmm]

> They are an ad-funded moonshot R&D incubator, searching only for billion dollar lightning strikes.

No, they're an ad company that funds a small moonshot R&D incubator to ethicalwash them. If the moonshots work that's nice, but it's not the purpose.

[xico]

Google and Meta are both Advertising companies.

If we want to decrease a tiny bit the insane imbalance in societies we need to have a strong discussion about taxing advertising.

[dijksterhuis]

netflix is tv/film licensing. [0]

facebook is a people database. meta is more people databases. [1]

contracting companies sell additional employee time to other companies.

welcome to the epiphany that many tech companies aren’t primarily software focussed. i was lucky to have a lecturer at university point this out to us fairly early on.

[0]: they started doing production — but that was just to be able to license more tv/films ;)

[1]: phrasing it like that puts a truly horrifying spin on their ad/data brokerage stuff i’ve just realised

[evan_a_a]

place this alongside the classic "mcdonalds is a real estate investment firm"

[the_other]

Today? Not 23 years ago (approx) when they started scanning emails?