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amithassan

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amithassan··on Privacy is the most important concept of our time
Lack of privacy is the capitalists' distributed social credit system. We have thousands of companies that mine massive data to spy on people in all ways. And that data can and will be used in hiring, firing, monetary credit, clearances, customer acceptance, and more.

The hardness to maintain privacy will be used as a means of significant control over access to money in all ways.

amithassan··on Social Cooling (2017)
How trite... Linking about social cooling to a site that refuses to let you purge your data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622865

They claim you can ask. Then dang backpedals.

amithassan··on UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors
But who decides what merit is, and who deserves it?

And certain kinds of merit can come primarily/only from high caste individuals. How do you choose merit that isn't coloured in race or otherwise?