Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco

Post by m463 » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 11:11 PM UTC

enumjorge wrote: post #48

paxys wrote: post #32

Apple sells devices and consumer services. Microsoft sells an OS and Office suite to businesses. Amazon is a retail marketplace and a cloud operator. Nvidia sells graphics cards. Adobe sells graphics software. Netflix makes movies and TV. Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments all design chipsets. Salesforce sells CRM. Oracle, IBM, Cisco and the like all sell various business services. Go down the list of big tec…

A lot of the companies you mentioned have non trivial investments in ads. I recently was surprised to find how big of an ad business Adobe has for example. Not sure that these companies would cease to exist if it weren’t for advertising but ads do influence these companies’ products.

Post by tick_tock_tick » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 11:17 PM UTC

bugglebeetle wrote: post #72

pjscott wrote: post #47

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Poverty rates worldwide have been going downward at a decent pace since the late 1800s, and really started plummeting faster between the mid-1990s and today. Here are some cheery graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief That doesn't mean that everyone is rich, but it is actually a really big deal . Next time you're tempted to write a phrase like "watching the world becoming ever more desperate" whe…

My point is exactly this misguided view of the world, that the global north can live lives of insane decadence, built on its history and continued plundering of the global south, while expecting them to find a reduction in extreme poverty as ameliorative. Your comment only reminds me that liberals are people who believe that luxury can exist without the suffering of others. There is no path in the current Capitalist…

Post by mattigames » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 11:23 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #32

Apple sells devices and consumer services. Microsoft sells an OS and Office suite to businesses. Amazon is a retail marketplace and a cloud operator. Nvidia sells graphics cards. Adobe sells graphics software. Netflix makes movies and TV. Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments all design chipsets. Salesforce sells CRM. Oracle, IBM, Cisco and the like all sell various business services. Go down the list of big tec…

Post by hext » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

ahahahahah wrote: post #42

Andrex wrote: post #13

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Sharply increasing suicide rates among teens due to social media isn't something to just shrug off, either.

Do you know what had the largest impact on suicide rates of teens in recent years? Them returning to schools after covid. Could it be that things can, at the same time, have both positive and negative effects on people?

Post by ke88y » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 11:34 PM UTC

eindiran wrote: post #35

drewcoo wrote: post #29

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I'm seeing religion that way. It's hard to go to dinner without the prayer drifting over from other tables, and even in LA most restaurants don't have no prayer zones yet. We have known for years that it's not good for anyone, but they have tough lobbyists, so getting rid of the problem just seems impossible. We all accept somehow that sports figures and celebrities endorse the product - they're adults. We accept tha…

I legitimately can't tell if this is satire or not. > [E]ven in LA most restaurants don't have no prayer zones yet No municipality in a region with a bill of rights providing freedom of religion is going to create no prayer zones. > It's hard to go to dinner without the prayer drifting over from other tables This makes me think this is satire...