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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  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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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      1 month ago

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

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      1 month ago

      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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    1 month ago

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