Sudaksis :asexual_flag: :demisexual_flag:@sudaksis@furry.engineer
I try not to be a doomer, but I work in this industry and every day I wonder how feasible it would be to become completely independent from tech in this day and age. So many people work in this industry. I've grown more distant with colleagues over two years now seeing how government collusion is going on and the trajectory of things to come, yet none of my coworkers care. Not even politics. Even just casual AI use they think is harmless fun. Tech is cool so we are cool by association. I see tech as tools for people to do cool things with, not the tech itself. The people should be the focus. They haven't been for a long time though. When you value objects over people, you lose all humanity. Empathy does not increase the bottom line. Capitalism begets hypercapitalism. We all suffer for it.
I believe in people, I really do, but I also believe the wickedness in some people is real as well. They are two sides of one coin and cannot exist alone. And yet, as bleak as it seems, I believe we will overcome in time.
Sudaksis :asexual_flag: :demisexual_flag:@sudaksis@furry.engineer
And more fuel for the fire.
https://youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0
If the end goal for these companies is to end consumer access to computing technologies only to sell them as services, like how the housing market has been going for a long time, then we need government regulation more than ever to prevent that. Representative governments should not be allowing consolidization of corporations, especially with such dependent offerings, to monopolize entire industries because it is a hazard to public development and maintainability. Outside of govs blocking deals and prosecuting top level executives for collusion, the employees would need to rise up and starve the beast of air to put an end to it. That is a harder and riskier route. Consumer boycotts won't work. Greed is a powerful enemy.
In the end, we may get the Cyberpunk future that some of us wanted.