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Ha. I see what the writer did here. I was expecting a legal or technical solution of a different kind lol.

Now if I were to send this article to the business team at my company in order to make a point about privacy I’m sure it would result in one way.

They’d be pissed I wasted their time telling them not to track based on the views of the author who clearly doesn’t understand and hasn’t fully articulated the business implications of not tracking which are numerous.

No track is like security regulations in healthcare. Yes it makes sense but when you think about the implications to the system as a whole there will be negative impact.

1. Loss of jobs (lack of data collection in business)

2. Loss of lives (greater security requirements in healthcare)

Why loss of jobs? Because guys like Jeff Bezos will lay-off staff before impacting his and his shareholders wealth in any significantly negative way.

Tell me why I’m wrong.

The two are very related. You may want to read up on the period of Reconstruction. The southern states moved to use of prisons and sharecropping/terrorism to maintain their hold on cheap labor.

There’s too many studies and books on this topic so I won’t post them. Instead, I’d recommend reading more about the parts of American history not called out in your standard high school text books.

No one is saying the treatment of small businesses isn’t wrong.

Instead this treatment is a fact of life. We can complain or we can change it.

The HN community complains about this sort of thing often but has been pretty unanimous in being anti-collective bargaining and anti-government intervention.

If you’re not willing to advocate for change but instead complain, why should we pity you.

1. Build your own infrastructure

2. Build your own platform

3. Or change your environment through advocacy

What are your options?

1. Build your own. 2. Collectively organize with other Etsy shop owners to advocate with Etsy leadership.

These type of policy changes aren’t a surprise anymore, no? We’ve seen them from Apple, Facebook, Shopify, Twitter, Amazon, EBay, etc for more than a decade now.

The same people complaining fail to advocate for change. You don’t like Etsy policies go elsewhere.

This is not rocket science.

You don’t like the fact that big companies abuse consumers, small businesses, and their employees, you can vote or collectively organize for change.

The HN community rails against unionization and collective bargaining often but loves to complain when a policy change like this occurs.

Make it make sense.

Equating car wrecks to companies making policy changes to increase their bottom line makes no sense here.

Your argument is effectively everything is OK as long as you’re not told.

The bottom line is that small business and consumers have a responsibility as well.

You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery.

It’s a fact that a number of American and European institutions benefited both directly and indirectly from former and present day slavery. Some have even admitted as much.

If you don’t want to read, here’s another short list: AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Brooks Brothers, Aetna, Lehman Brothers, Domino Sugar, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Princeton University, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown,

- https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154386... - https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/ - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247

The current political climate around the Trump administration gets more and more insane. The one thing it demonstrates is that the American populace is not worthy of its pseudo-democracy but is lucky to have it. The question is how long will it last before it crumbles like any other civilization in history.

China says its offers stability by suppressing freedom while America dresses up inequality and instability as freedom. One is neither worst or better than the other unless you’re at the bottom of the totem pole in either country meaning some combination of female, impoverished, of color and or queer.

If you disagree than congratulations you’ve either never traveled and/or have completely subscribed to your nations propaganda and are too foolish to know or care.

It’s not surprising that business interests will take advantage of their employees.

The surprising thing is that modern employees somehow are still surprised by what is standard corporate behavior and don’t see the value in collective bargaining until they’ve already been screwed by their HR department, put out of the company and ostracized by their former co-workers who they falsely assume are their friends.

Americans! Corporations are not people and they do not care about you.

As anyone who has suffered injustice in a court will tell you...

We have a legal system not a justice system.

Those in poverty and without power have known this for sometime.

Read: Gideons Trumpet by Anthony Lewis

Follow: @innocence

At one point in US history from 1863-1930, the lynching of black men was a regular occurrence throughout the Midwest and South.

Another fun fact is that most slaveholding families recovered their wealth less than one generation later through their connections and the white terrorism that let them reclaim their power.

I’d recommend checking out the museum dedicated to these lynching victims in Birmingham, Alabama, the Legacy Museum and National Memorial to Peace and Justice.

Sources: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/04/04/the-sons-...

https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-shows-over-a-c...

I like Ray Dalio. I’m a big fan of his book, Principles and his favorite book recommendation, Lessons of History by the Durants.

However, his LinkedIn post is irresponsible and appears more to do with discrediting journalism than sticking to and stating the facts. It’s becoming more than apparent that some members of the 1% are increasingly threatened about the role that unfettered journalism and left-leaning politics has in critiquing their unchecked power in this time of historically significant inequality.

JP Morgan Chase and McKesson both use Ruby with McKesson leading the pack in RoR LOC among the Fortune 50