Michael Sainato • The Guardian
Surveillance capitalism strikes again
Surveillance capitalism strikes again

Retailers are looking for what’s called the “pain point.” That’s the maximum amount that you as an individual customer are willing to pay for a specific product
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[an app’s] knowledge of your phone battery’s life to determine how desperate you might be for a ride home, and therefore charge you more for it
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now imagine … they look at me and they know every video I’ve watched on YouTube, everything I’ve searched in Google, and everything I have liked on Facebook, every conversation I’ve had with an AI chatbot. Does that feel like a fair situation?
Does that feel like a fair situation?
The wage slaves of the Gilded Age had it easy