IANAL, but my family lives comfortably on our income. I've had the opportunity to peek behind the curtain and get to know (professionally) people with seven figure incomes and eight figure net worths. The "contempt born of familiarity" resonates for me, intimately.
What surprised me and continues to haunt me is how trapped they are in the same system as the rest of us. They were keenly aware that not "playing the game" for even a moment would mean they're out of it. No single millionaire can change anything much more than you or I. The system would destroy them for trying. Even if an entire company of top executives were to collectively band together and try to make change the market would dissolve their wealth in a heartbeat.
And that is what keeps me up at night... there are no heroes, no saints, no saviors. Just a system put in place generations ago that is going to have to implode under its own weight, likely violently and at great human cost, for anything to get better.
I got one of these scam calls saying they were my bank and they saw suspicious activity on my account and just needed me to read back the numbers on the SMS message they were about to send me to confirm they reached the right person.
Um, no. That's not how that works. But I realized just about everyone in my less tech savvy family would have done it instantly. I called everyone I could think of and warned them never to do this but I have no idea if it really sank in.
The design is based on the false assumption that Google's page-ranking algorithm favors accurate results and not SEO-gamed garbage. Google Search has been broken for some time, and now the company is relying on those gamed and spam-filled results to feed its new AI model.
God I love this so much. Though I'd bet there will shortly be two Google search algorithms, one for us engines of consumption and one directly from 2016 only for the AI to feed from.
IANAL, but my family lives comfortably on our income. I've had the opportunity to peek behind the curtain and get to know (professionally) people with seven figure incomes and eight figure net worths. The "contempt born of familiarity" resonates for me, intimately.
What surprised me and continues to haunt me is how trapped they are in the same system as the rest of us. They were keenly aware that not "playing the game" for even a moment would mean they're out of it. No single millionaire can change anything much more than you or I. The system would destroy them for trying. Even if an entire company of top executives were to collectively band together and try to make change the market would dissolve their wealth in a heartbeat.
And that is what keeps me up at night... there are no heroes, no saints, no saviors. Just a system put in place generations ago that is going to have to implode under its own weight, likely violently and at great human cost, for anything to get better.