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at this point you're barely the product either. You're more a passive platform for them to execute their strategy on.

• wolvoleo 5mo ago
  Totally agreed. I was thinking about how to word it but I was giving up. But I would consider us users to be more like an asset on their balance sheet. Not something they would care about the opinion of.
  • mcmcmc 4mo ago
    More like livestock tbh. Only instead of wool or meat or eggs being harvested, it’s mindshare and attention that they depend on
    • amatecha 4mo ago
      Makes me think of that scene of Neo waking up from the Matrix the first time and seeing the "battery pods"... yeah...
      • wolvoleo 4mo ago
        That's a good comparison to how I feel these days.