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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Companies these days: “help us think of products we can sell to procure data. No, we don’t care what the product is; we just want the data.”

[–] jcit878 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I often wonder are we in some sort of "data bubble"? all this obsession over collecting it but not actually providing stuff people will pay for surely has an endgame

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the endgame is to speedrun getting filthy rich and buying up a chunk of the earth before it’s completely destroyed.