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Shit, so anyone wearing these glasses is compromising everyone they come into contact with, not just to data brokers, but by extension to the us government, and everyone else the data brokers sell the information to.
This is something the federal government actually should be regulating under interstate commerce, companies grabbing personal information of groups that didn't consent is hardly fair, not the least when the information is being used commercially and to the detriment of people.
I guess that is why previous google glasses wearers were accosted and chased out of establishments, they didn't want a corporate spy sending everyone's likeness to headquarters and data banks.
They should. Instead they're not only not doing that, but they're writing executive orders that make it illegal for states to do exactly that.
Not only that, when the bubble pops, which it seems like it's going to as they've no way to make back the money they are investing, the federal government will bail them out I fear, and make them even more beholden to our politicians and their pet projects.
Man I sure hope the gov sees the writing on the wall and just lets it die. There's no "bailing out" a company that has no path to profitability. At least the auto and housing industries existed for hundreds of years prior.
Yeah think about it, they would hardly lose any jobs, the only people that will lose out will be investors, bond holders, corporations that signed contracts with them maybe. They would have to play on the few lost jobs it could cause, even those though, the chip makers will still have work, they will just have to switch back to making chips for computers, which we need to be cheaper as AI has led to a derth of computer chips and I presume skyrocketing prices. So the chip makers will be fine.
They really don't have an argument that I can see to bail them out, they will anyway, but it will be even more corrupt and blatant than what came before.
But maybe they can keep it going for a long time, especially with the fed about to be controlled by the executive and zero interest rates indefinitely. I mean look at Tesla, the actual value means nothing, apparently. It seems like it has to pop eventually, but I think the knowledge that the goverrnment will bail them out has led to less volatility as investors aren't so quick to jump ship.
Privatized gains, and socialized losses. The president is basically a communist. That is what I'm going with.