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The article is written by a political activist. Might as well include solar activity and locust plague map to demonstrate how much the world is on fire.

Those are slow earthquakes that can be ignored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake

Also there are already hurricanes in the map legend. Nobody would notice a little earthquake during a hurricane.

Also school plants into children some biases that later used by authorities for divide-and-conquer.

E.g. the school told me that I belong to some ethnicity and that there are other ethnicities I should know about. As a child I couldn't care less. Why would they tell me this if ethnicity doesn't even matter for future job?

Another example is socio-economic system classification: capitalist vs socialist vs fascist vs monarchy etc. Why does it have to be so clean-cut categories? Like if you're not in one camp then you have to be in another. Just another divisive tool.

So they do want to create the work force but they also want to prevent any sort of revolt and thus plant psychological leverages in peoples' heads. It is a science of social engineering that they don't teach in schools.

I was homeless and a stranger gave me an apple. I washed it and sold for $.01. I used the proceeds to buy 2 dirty apples, washed them and sold for $.02. Then I learned that my grandma died and left me with $1M inheritance.

> Profits continue to be shifted to tax havens, especially Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

The US just can't do anything to these countries. Too far from the Middle East.

The US can't do anything to the companies either. It is private business, you see? Corporate personhood. For non-corporate persons there is FATCA.

> I'm not saying the whole n-as-a-service culture is a bad thing.

Is is not a bad thing, it is a horse @#$*! It smells with rentier capitalism and serfdom. Especially IP and copyright which is just a global cenzorship in disguise.

Lack of control and dependency on third-party is what I don't like the most. All I want is to buy a thing and forget about the seller.

- Cannot upgrade, downgrade, copy on-demand

- Tied to lifetime, profitability of the service

- Cannot fix the price

- Cannot prevent from adding "features" like ads or microtransactions

- Connectivity requirements

- One more account

- No privacy

- Cenzorship (ban, restriction by territory)

The list goes on.

> In 2012, Bruce Willis took Apple to court after discovering that he couldn't leave his iTunes library to his children - on his death, the rights are nullified

We need something like this for wealth.

> STEM in early education being unfriendly to children from underrepresented backgrounds > hostile university culture in male-dominated CS programs > biased hiring practices > non-inclusive work environments

Is there any actual proof of any of this rather than some bogus numbers from noname Kapor Center who admit they are just evangelists?

https://www.kaporcenter.org/our-work/ > Our pioneering work ranges from education programs and community building to evangelism and investing.

> If someone is a "normal" consumer, a hospital patient, etc. I don't think the conversation is the same anymore.

That's the thing. Crime-prevention is a plausible excuse. "Normal" consumer's data is mass harvested, profiled, stored, and used for social engineering of some more convenient "normal" consumer. Is there so many mobsters that require exabytes of data storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

> Regardless of society, isn't there always a certain kind of person, due to their upbringing, feels persecuted, though?

Well there were some precedents of abuse in history. Secondly, people don't like to be a subject to be ruled. Thirdly, some people are under(d)evolved and still are primates that fear any powerful entity (leopard) watching them. Surveillance makes them paranoid and then depressed and then they snap and bad things happen.

For SaaS I agree but subscriptions for stationary bike, for food, for printer ink, for traktors, etc.

> You can make subscriptions work if your intentions are good

I am afraid investors only care about growth. First they are going to grow untill no more subscribers. Preferably the company will have monopolistic position by that time. Then they will start increasing rates up to "what market will bear". Then they will start tweaking "personalizing" experience with microtransactions etc trying to squeeze more. Add regulatory capture to this. This rent-seeking won't stop.

Here is an alternative link in case someone cannot read the article because of paywall

https://www.zuora.com/2018/12/09/how-subscriptions-are-remak...

> Remember there’s a time and place

What is the time and place to discuss politics? Apparently I can only discuss it in my head, with myself.

Why don't politicians, activists, media, celebs and other propaganda tools just stop discussing politics in public? That'd help to resolve some tensions.

> What do people really feel?

They probably feel being stalked. They must be anxious and paranoid.

> On a final note, the few people in US that scoff at surveillance are the same people who line up to get $1600 smart phones

Like they have a choice not to have a "smart" phone. Like with dumb-phone they can avoid cell-tower tracking, voice recording. The people that scoff at surveillance are an indicator that something is broken. State and corporate stalking must stop.