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What is it with Meta and destroying society in general? Zuck buys all the buildings in the block to have his privacy, but now wants to patent everyone else’s privacy who happens to be in the vicinity of his product. Researchers already found a dormant facial recognition pipeline quietly sitting inside the Meta AI app earlier this year, built and shipped without anyone opting in. I hope people have the power to sue if there are any recordings without consent.

https://www.engadget.com/2187824/wired-found-code-for-an-unr...

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Podcast Behind the Bastards has a great episode on Zuck, worth a listen.

The episode is "Mark Zuckerberg: The Worst Person of the 21st Century (So Far)", in three parts (eps. 43-45) [1] [2] [3]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srIt1RFE-Zo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icLml1LJUE

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxNYbfYiG2c

> Zuck buys all the buildings in the block to have his privacy

It's even worse than that, now he's buying up indigenous burial sites:

https://robbreport.com/shelter/celebrity-homes/mark-zuckerbe...

Billionaires buying tons of Hawaiian land is actually a huge problem. Marc Benioff has been doing it as well.

Government should close all these loop holes on taxes and charge huge tax on people like Zuck who buys scares resources like lands and houses.

This is the inevitable result of wealth concentration. The wealthy will spend their money buying up whatever resources they want. Today, most things are for sale, and they're all fungible. Solving this problem in any durable fashion requires not having billionaires.

There will almost always exist loopholes in any scheme. Having wealth effectively buys you new loopholes. It's a (non)virtuous cycle. We need to tie tax to wealth level and be done with it.

My friends in the cattle industry told me that one of Bill Gates’s companies is buying up pasture land and driving up prices across the midwest, too. I don’t know exactly how you’d legally prevent it, but it does seem like a problem.

In fairness to Bill Gates, buying a ton of pasture land seems like a reasonable step to diversify his fortune. It's hard to find enough non-tech places to stash that much money.

Making Bill Gates richer seems like an anti-problem for society. Centralizing land ownership under him however is a huge problem.

I thought he'd want to reduce the consumption of meat. But maybe that's the goal?

In the EU they have.

Pictures of people, especially once they are identified, are person related data. And there are strict rules on how companies can collect / generate / process / transfer this kind of data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

I’d post a Wikipedia link to the French Revolution, but I’m too chickenshit.

Anyway, an important topic to read about if you want to be a member of a free, democratic society.

You don't have to go as far back as the French Revolution. Labor unions in the late 19th and early 20th century fought pitched battles against the exploitative billionaire equivalents of their day, and it was much easier for the rich to accept t labor's demands when they knew there was real risk of physical harm from the workers they were exploiting. If you work an 8 hour day, or your job can't subject you dangerous conditions with no recourse, thank militant unions who were willing to lay it on the line against greedy oppressors like Zuckerberg.

These days though, you got half the population rooting for the billionaires. They'll tell people if they don't like their working conditions or pay, just find a new job.

The division in our society was created by the ultra-wealthy for the ultra-wealthy. Until more people realize that we'll continue to be exploited by them.

Certainly, but I've seen an alarming number of people that acknowledge this source of division, and yet still rant against workers demanding better conditions and vote for politicians that are very open about not giving a shit about workers.

Rupert Murdoch was/is one of the best, most direct, most prolific (thanks to his massive media ownership) manipulators of public opinion for precisely this purpose. This cartoon nailed it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGtZG6aFPtQ/

I remember reading a recent sci-fi book where oil companies executives, oilgarks and other people who destroyed the environment were hunted down and killed in revenge for fucking up our common environment.

Sooner or later people will decide that enough is enough.

Any chance you remember the title of the book? Based on the fact you didn't post it outright might mean it's not worth reading though lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_(novel)

This is the book. I thought that this was a thought provoking book. Sooner or later the world will look like the one described in it if we don't change our ways.

What we are doing is not sustainable.

Sounds like the book was The Ministry of the Future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_(novel)

French Revolution is why I cannot respect any AI system.

Some variant of _Sorry, I cannot discus violence_ in some form is what seems to always result with the _French Revolution_ inquiries.

They are pre-programmed bias that are designed to limit knowledge and content consumption.

Another is asking if any employees working at AI company Y are Epstein associates. _No one that works at Y was associated with Epstein." It will keep it up until you give it a name of an actually employee that was an associate.

This is what happens when you take people with impaired empathy for other human beings, nurture that impairment, and then present unfathomable sums of wealth to incentivize the continuation of the impairment.

Destroying the society is a feature for them not a bug.

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