Would welcome thoughts:
So, I'm reading literature on the idea of surveillance capitalism, and it all sounds quite sinister, and I have lots of gripes about some aspects of the tech biz, but like... a lot of this stuff doesn't reckon with the fact that, if you look at people's behavior and not their public proclamations... most of us really like being data-mined. Or at least, we like the convenience it produces?
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@ZachWeinersmith I'm not so much worried about the privacy side*, but all this data mining is using up all of our cycles and bandwidth, then blasting us with a constant firehose of ads.
*I recognize that, if I were a part of a marginalized group, I would be MUCH more worried about privacy.
