Wildmimic comments on Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 20 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Which means the fines must equal the wealth of at least one nation to matter. I'm all for that.

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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

How about we just don’t have private ownership of the means of production so we stop guaranteeing that only the most ruthless and greedy humans can rise to power? Democratic control over workplaces would largely prevent the monopolization on decision-making by the psychopath class.

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[–] obvs@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

At this point, there is no justification for privatized control of the means of production.

Especially for AI.

When the purpose of a technology is to remove the ability to work from as many people as possible, there is no valid reason for that technology to in any way benefit individuals without first benefitting those whose jobs it destroys.

The wealthy are literally job destroyers. That is what they actually are.

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[–] freely1333@reddthat.com 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Tbf we have democratic control in government and the psychopath class does just fine consolidating power.

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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

That’s entirely because we don’t have democratic control of the economy. The reason the psychopath class is able to consolidate government power is because they own the economic power.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

I'd like that to happen, but that's sadly unlikely. Companies like Google and Microsoft should be global infrastructure under state control - even better would be UN control.

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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’ll never happen for as long as you and people like you believe it’s impossible.

Once you all believe it is possible, it will become inevitable.

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[–] obvs@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It is ABSOLUTELY possible.

At this point, we need to stop listening to ANYONE who says it's impossible.

What is NOT possible is sustaining the current system as it currently functioning.

Literally anyone can look at the current system and identify that it can't continue to function in this way. And I'm not arguing that people will say that it's too cruel to continue. I'm saying that regardless of whether anyone is working to try to change the system, it's just not logistically possible for things to continue functioning the way they've been functioning. The population doesn't have any more to give, but the wealthy demand more profits and profits at an increasing break.

We are at a breaking point with or without people trying to break anything.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 point 6 months ago*

I said it's unlikely, not impossible. I like to dream of a better future more in line with what we thought would be happening at the time when the internet was still young too.

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