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 Google is known for spying on us, but yet researching THEIR executives, leads us to:

Prabhakar Raghavan was put in charge of Google search and was effectively running the entire company.  But this the same guy who ran Yahoo search from 2005 to 2012, during which the company collapsed, because Yahoo search results sucked.  So of all people to improve Google’s quality?!

Google search used to be the icon for American innovation worldwide, but now has turned into mostly AI spam and clickbait garbage.  Raghavan’s decisions included:
--Make Ads look like organic search and blend in (starting in 2019)
--Prioritize ranking of Google ads customers in organic search
--Prioritize SEO optimization over quality

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai criticizes republicans as “low information voters”, but yet he previously worked at McKinsey which:
--encouraged banks to load up on debt and flawed mortgage-backed securities in 2008
--Cut costs to outsource labor, getting everyday people fired

So the CEO wants us to accept his left-wing socialist dribble, when his company went out of its way to gut middle class jobs?!

Source: Edward Zitron, https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ 
 You can be a CEO and socialist or left wing.  He's a capitalist of the highest order.  He's gotten very rich our of exploiting people.  Thats what capitalism does. 
 I believe you have a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism.

Google gets government money for military cloud, propaganda, educational computing, and more.  The government extracts money involuntarily.  That’s not capitalism. 
 Capitalism is just getting capital.  Corruption gets you capital.  Theft gets you capital. Guns get you capital. Its all capitalism. Screwing over other people to exploit them is the basis of any kind of capitalism.  There is no capitalism that does not exploit.  Read Marx, he explains what capitalism is, he coined the phrase. And every wealthy banker in the city understands Marx,  Das Capital thats how they know how to make money. 
 No, capitalism is part of a republic of self-ownership of the fruits of an individual’s labor and time,
While it’s socialism that is whatever the majority wants, even if it’s corrupt.

By your logic, Why should you be entitled to own your private Nostr key?
I propose a bill to seize and control your Nostr key.  If you fail to hand it over to a vote, then you do not believe in socialism. 
 The fruits of anothers labour more like.  You act like Elon musk works harder than his factory workers 
 Nah... You don't understand what capitalism is at all...