Re:U.S. govt, tech industry discuss using location data to c...
by bilbo0s on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:19AM
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>it will be too late for this facile "the benefits outweigh the costs" bullshit.
No it won't, because the horrible, but realistic, take is that the benefits indeed will outweigh the costs. For all the people who are not targets of the pogroms.
Horrible as it sounds, a lot of people don't really care about things that happen to other people. Even if those other people die. Especially when the other people are not like them.
Sometimes I wonder whether apathy is the true root of evil, not really money. I'm no different, I'm guilty of that tendency towards apathy as well. I'm certainly up in arms about privacy, but I really don't get the same way about women's issues. Nor black guys being gunned down by cops in their apartments. I may lament those situations, but I certainly don't donate money or time to those and other causes.
Point is, root of the issue is that no one cares. Everyone has their own concerns. Which is democracy. And that's great.
But inherent in that environment is a kind of built in "divide and conquer" quality that provides political and economic élites a convenient control mechanism.
No it won't, because the horrible, but realistic, take is that the benefits indeed will outweigh the costs. For all the people who are not targets of the pogroms.
Horrible as it sounds, a lot of people don't really care about things that happen to other people. Even if those other people die. Especially when the other people are not like them.
Sometimes I wonder whether apathy is the true root of evil, not really money. I'm no different, I'm guilty of that tendency towards apathy as well. I'm certainly up in arms about privacy, but I really don't get the same way about women's issues. Nor black guys being gunned down by cops in their apartments. I may lament those situations, but I certainly don't donate money or time to those and other causes.
Point is, root of the issue is that no one cares. Everyone has their own concerns. Which is democracy. And that's great.
But inherent in that environment is a kind of built in "divide and conquer" quality that provides political and economic élites a convenient control mechanism.