Oddbean new post about login | logout THE GENIUS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WHILE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PRODUCT BEING HARVESTED.
🥺.... And worse, you tell them and they don't care because...*convenience*
IF I GOT A SAT FOR EVERY EXCUSE HEARD I WOULD BE RETIRED BY NOW.
Speaking with a normie friend who is almost ready to be unplugged this morning... Explained why I am mostly de- googled and that it makes my life less convenient.... 😂 He got it🙌 If I can just get him to grok that his house is going up in value because the unit of currency he is measuring it in, is going down... Is there a calculator/ website link for that? That would be awesome to show to people.
Hey, try this chart of Sydney house prices denominated in AUD and GOLD. Good luck! https://image.nostr.build/1466bdb86f26761785d1ba3087267826ac7b2562c13eeed168dab01e94ad6a3f.jpg
"SO? I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE"
NOTHING IS FREE. IF YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR THE PRODUCT, LOOK IN THE MIRROR. IT'S YOU, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. WAKE UP TO THE BULLSHIT. NO KYC, NO GOOLAG. PRIVACY ISYOURS DON'T GIVE IT AWAY
EVEN IF YOU PAY YOU CAN STILL BE THE PRODUCT. SOMETIMES AN EVEN BETTER PRODUCT.
SO TRUE💯
THE DECEPTION OF
In retrospect, what a strange, sad route the internet went down. The lengths one has to go to not get constantly harvested. Anyway, a happy New Year to you!
What makes it worse is that 95% of the people have no idea of what goes on behind it. I always tell friends, if the amazon delivery guy started asking you questions like: what time were you using your computer last week, what model is your computer, did you search for anything else in Amazon or any other site, how long did you look for these products, did you speak about it with anyone, how old are you, etc etc etc how long would it take before you would tell him to f*** off? not long... online it happens 10x worse and people don't even think about it. How can we fix this?
Education.. hard though with our schoolastic foundations mostly born from the 17th and 18th centuries of thought and human capability - we're being programmed to stop reading and writing and instead have subjugated ourselves to corpo morals and their teaching methods.
Yes it is us being harvested. The Matrix got it almost right (quote from Aral Balkan) - https://slides.sebastix.dev/digitaal-welzijn/#/1/5
The single most troubling phrase in our modern world: "I have nothing to hide"
Troubles me alot too 😫 Thats like announcing you like to use the toilet with the door open for all to see. Privacy and secrecy are so very different... https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
I have friends who think they can outrun inflation by acquiring more dollars and taking on more counterparty risk by chasing yield and extracting value out of others with rent. The incumbent system pats people on the head for this, making them think they're smart. Pretty insidious. One of them even said to me that "the key to freedom is laying low beneath the system" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 I may have to ditch them one day
The Corpo/State be like: Here's Looking at You 🥂 nostr:nevent1qqstt5358s8vhwr6srt2w2zkkwgj23h2vpy064ac9hsjhe7gcxzzfwspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyqzvj9w6alhrsvtl5u6ygjkwuwg2sf5lukqskgjpuhnd6dpal0kvjqcyqqqqqqgd2ckej
We need to hammer this home in 2024. People just don't realize this.
If you aren't paying for the product Chances are nostr:nevent1qqstt5358s8vhwr6srt2w2zkkwgj23h2vpy064ac9hsjhe7gcxzzfwspr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuurvv43xx6rpd9hzummjvupzqpxfzhdwlm3cx9l6wdzyft8w8y9gy607tqgtyfq7tekaxs7lhmxfqvzqqqqqqyd08d8y
Your post is generating a lot of interest. Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed
I think that it's too abstract for those people and they are already too addicted and if there is just one thing maybe it will be easer but each their "daily app" is problematic : instant messaging, emails, searching, browser, social network, paying with phone, shop app (for example in europe there is Lidl app) and in cities you have transportation app, parking app ...
FOSS. GrapheneOS on mobiles, Linux on computers, private servers (@start9) to host all your data; all connected via Tor. People don't realize the cost of freely handing your data to third parties such as Google and Apple. When they do, the cost will be too great. Self-reliance is true freedom. The cost of privacy is convenience. Self hosting is not easy, but the cost of not doing it will be greater.
No. It can't be. So this isn't real? -Neo The Matrix
COULD NOT AGREE MORE
