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After reading this, I'm not sure if Google are on my side.

Corporations are never on your side. At best their goals are temporarily aligned with yours, but it is always fleeting.

'Corporations don't want money. They want all the money - all of it, all of the time.'

Not always. Some of them still value customers and are at least attempting to go in the correct direction for society. This one, not so much.

It seems like lots start off like that but it never lasts. I think it's an effect of having shareholders: it all boils down to money in the end

The moment a company begins their push for IPO is the very moment the enshitification and anti-user bullshit starts.

Every once in a while, those corporations are held to task by other non-public entities, but as soon as they drive the non-public out, enshitification begins.

They aren’t on your side, but don’t make the mistake of thinking there’s 2 sides and 1 must be on your side.

We’ve seen governments around the world not be on the people’s side many time (for UK specially, see brexit)

> We’ve seen governments around the world not be on the people’s side many time (for UK specially, see brexit)

What do you mean? People voted for Brexit. Boris and his government delivered it. What would you rather like them do, a press release in the lines of "Oh, forget it, it was just one of Nigel's dumb ideas and we were daft enough to ask" after the vote?

Certainly not after the vote. The is a violation of democracy.

But it they didn't have to propose it. And they didn't have to advertise it.

And it would be one thing if all sides earnestly believed the benefits - instead better members of the party should have checked the dumb ideas (this is the point of parties)

Well, they advertised and proposed it rather than losing votes (quite a predictable party move, Nigel knew that too). I'm pretty sure Cameron believed it would never pass. But it did. That's why he quit afterwards. It was one of those "oh shit" moments.

If you think that’s how it worked then you’re as naive as the voters who were manipulated.

It's pretty clear: they're not.

>After reading this, I'm not sure if Google are on my side.

Google stopped being on your side a very long time ago

on our side

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