cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43990476

Your daily reminder that by supporting Big Tech, you are contributing to the insane wealth disparity.

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    10 days ago

    Google got rid of thousands of employees in the last 5 years and this asshole gets half a billion dollars…

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow’s enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.

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    So what exactly does he do that’s worth $300,000/hr? Or let’s say he works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the whole year (and you know he does not), $190,000/hr?

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      10 days ago

      He comes from a long line of nobility and these tech lands were promised to him as a dowry

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    My problem is how do I get people to stop using google.

    I can open a business, but if I’m not on the monopoly search app, nobody will know.

    I don’t use google anymore, but everyone else does, and no, they won’t migrate off gmail and Apple and Google don’t let you change your search provider. Google doesn’t even let you remove Google Search from pixel launcher.

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      I replaced Pixel launcher with Lawnchair. Very similar UX but let’s you do things like set the search bar to just open your default browser.

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      Yeah I opened a business as well but quickly realized it’s nearly impossible without capitulating to the monoliths that are modern advertising platforms from Meta and Google.

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        You can change your default search provider on any platform. The problem is no one actually does it, and Google is always the default, because they invest billions of dollars in that arrangement.

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      This didn’t register in my mind until I realized that 692 million dollars may be an order of magnitude or two greater than my income over my entire lifetime…

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    Wondering what’s fueling the AI bubble? Spoiler: it’s not company profits. It’s this.

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    9 days ago

    It’s not Google problem, it’s problem of people that work for Google. They create the system that allows that.

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    Nice cover photo. At least he looks grateful for his better part of a billion in blood money.