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> Caution, incoming naive statement: Companies should put their customer's well being before profits, because we all know most people don't understand what's going on with their digital devises.

This might be illegal for publicly traded companies. Shareholder maximization forces them to deceive their customers.

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> This might be illegal for publicly traded companies. Shareholder maximization forces them to deceive their customers.

This is nothing more than a myth.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

Public companies aren’t disallowed from making long term investments such as building brand loyalty. You are excusing the braindead executives for their choice to burn their brand in exchange for some imaginary ad paycheck. Like I’m going to buy a branded pack of eggs based on an ad on my fucking fridge (and somehow that’s going to make them a ton of dough). I can’t get over how simple-minded and gullible the people running these companies are.

If you wanna skip some chapters and see where all of this ends up, go check out how Unity is doing after John Riccitiello fucked them.

You sir are misjudging me and the effort I put into not only protecting myself but also other from this overreach and intrusion into the life and privacy of myself and others.

But the comment above me argued "Companies should put their customer's well being before profits" which as a general statement may VERY well fall under my argument.

The reality is that i believe shareholder value optimization and unregulated capitalism is the problem.

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