Apple and Amazon are adding real values to the economy and making positive contribution to society. Google and Meta are parasites that invade our privacy and show us ads. These ad companies should disappear from the earth.
I miss the old days when everything I bought from Amazon came from Amazon and was trustworthy and not a fake.
Their terrible worker treatment isn’t endearing in any way either.
> Their terrible worker treatment isn’t endearing in any way either
Aren't these also things Apple struggles with?
#2 is a problem with companies Apple contracts with. And Apple holds those suppliers to high standards, partly because of past attention.
The dirty little secret is everyone uses Foxcon and other companies like them. MS does (did?) for Xboxes. Other computer makers. Electronics device makers. Everyone. Very few companies have their own factories they run top-to-bottom.
But the headlines are pointed at Apple. That gets clicks. Do those other companies try to keep worker standards up the way Apple does? No one covers that, do they.
But Amazon owns the warehouses. Amazon sets their labor standards. Maybe there are subcontractors for the workers or divers. But it’s 100% Amazon’s control. Amazon didn’t contract everything out to a logistics company. Amazon IS the logistics company.
That’s a very big difference in my book.
Yeah but they're Chinese workers, so people are happy to look the other way /s
Ever use Tensorflow? Or... use 8.8.8.8 as a DNS server? Or... Gmail? or Learn something from watching YouTube?
One has to pay the bills somehow. If Google disappeared from the Earth would the replacement be better?
google has done great, I don't buy ' literally revolutionized the human experience of recorded information? ' -- it's simply not true; they just did well in that niche.
Had they gone insolvent another similar group would have dominated that same field, that should make it dead obvious that their business (search specifically) wasn't revolutionary -- just very successful.
But, one thing it does do is open the world to people living in rural areas who wouldn't otherwise be able to access so many goods and services (of, admittedly, varying quality and provenance).
It's the Sears Catalog of the 21st century.
Could you explain your position more fully? Perhaps a bit about how society would function without advertising.