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In order for the AI and robots to work, Google, Facebook and Intel Agencies need everybody's data.
Giving away everything, all our data, for absolutely nothing has got to end.
In a world where the manipulation machine is shut down, there will still be paranoid and conspiracy theorists, but there will not be a commercial incentive to incite these constantly, all the time, 24 hrs a day.
They will not drive advertising, or mainstream news -- or the amplified extremes of our politics!
Crazy politics cannot build or maintain a wealthy country.
One way you make a working economy and a working democracy: get paid for your data, and because you exist -- and no one gets left out.
The Yang model isn't the same, but will only bolster the current manipulation business model of Silicon Valley.
Get ready to read increasing Silicon Valley's attacks on this idea.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/23/opinion/data-privacy-jaron-lanier.html?fbclid=IwAR3oi_xC517oWIio4S999SjNAqFxO-jWzn4ukb6BOAFgHLmObzwTg0y2-jo
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ancianita
(36,014 posts)more about how deleting social media accounts can turn around the Silicon Valley business model that makes them so much money, they're offering to give you $2,000 a year to keep running it.
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Nay
(12,051 posts)$2000 a year is chump change.
ancianita
(36,014 posts)money they make. SO much money that they can afford to buy off the public to keep giving their data away for free.
It's a big fat lie that no one has to go for.
The book is terrific, a really good look at how third parties have profited off our communications for at least 20 years, and how we can stop them, and how they'll still stay totally rich.
It's along the lines of why taxing the .01% will help the economy and jobs -- after we get trillions back for the green new deal and the retrofitting of our construction world, they'll STILL be rich.
ancianita
(36,014 posts)better.
It's a new economics model that will eliminate the few as the only rulers of the many. It's actually the right form of capitalism, not the model that Yang represents.