Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by noisepunk on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:31PM
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I was wondering about how Amazon has grafted itself to the U.S. government so looked it up and found that government agencies rely on AWS. Is that what your referring to?
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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by fundad on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:46PM
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You know government, the sector that has the same needs as the private sector economy but is one hundredth the size.
Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by anonreeeeplor on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:35AM
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The government reached nearly half of USA GDP recently.
Assertion: False
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...
Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by betaby on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:37AM
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How it's false? Spending and GDP are different things.
Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by anonreeeeplor on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:34AM
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
The cia and other agencies are deeply tangled with Amazon and Microsoft and Google.
You are unaware we are in capitalism. You have to understand what capitalism Is.
A successful virus in evolution is one that permanently inserts its dna into human dna. So it doesn’t even need to reproduce anymore. That’s why we have so much junk dna.
A successful corporation becomes the government. Microsoft is well past this stage. Microsoft IS the government.
Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by thegabez on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:28PM
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This is why capitalism evolves into socialism, we are in the beginning stages of this. Marx explains all of this better than I can.
Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by wildrhythms on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:15AM
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"Public-private partnership"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partner...