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Jesus this is some horrible panopticon shit. I hope everyone involved in building the system to do this feels horrible about it being used this way.

Really gotta remember to check back in this thread and see if there’s any new accounts claiming to be someone involved in this and talking about how they got to the point where this feels like a sensible business decision.

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The sad truth is, most people simply don't care about anything that doesn't affect them. Yes, there are people who do care, like many of us here on Hacker News, but we are very much in the minority. And even among those who do care, very few are really willing to do anything about it, far from enough to bring about any meaningful change.

Funny, plenty of people here in the comments are defending Amazon and are absolutely for treating humans like robots.

Many of us, not all of us. More so than the average population.

Unless you've been living under a rock (congrats if so!), you should have noticed the US being on the idiocracy + corporate dystopia timeline.

And no, the builders of this don't feel bad. They feel "excited" to be blessed by some 0.1%er's capital and get that FAANG experience on their CV.

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