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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    11 days 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.

  • patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se
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    11 days ago

    Lol, hopefully any Googlers happy with their $500k pay package stop and consider if Sundar is really worth 1,000 of them.

    (Yes I know this is technically a 3-year pay package so it’s closer to ~450x a single $500k pay package)

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      9 days 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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    11 days ago

    Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.

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    10 days ago

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

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    10 days ago

    Nice cover photo. At least he looks grateful for his better part of a billion in blood money.

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    11 days ago

    This one is tough, because he’s a person of color. It’s easier to hate then when they’re white.