iDEA’S FROM THE FAR CORNER
± 34 Big Tech
Yeah, totally with you, such a massive waste of time and energy, but its so frigging difficult to get off those apps!
Tech companies are mining our data, pushing ads, paying little or zero taxes with no effective legal controls.
Its like a Swiss bank account being run by super nerdy gangsters, that we're paying into daily.
Looking up the definition of a parasite is interesting is says:
A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little back.. an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism
Okay check this little calculation...let's say you spend 2 hours a day on your device.
2 hours x 7 days = 14 hours per week
14 hours x 52 weeks = 728 hours
728 divided by 16 hours (awake time per day) = 45.5 days
45.5 x 10 years = 455 days
Over 10 years you have spent 455 days = 1 year 2 months on your device.
3 hours = 1 year 8 months.
Big tech don't sell our data, they sell our attention. Offering our attention as opportunities to businesses.
Essentially our time is the product. The longer you stay on their platform the more power you give them to sell ads - you may never click though to the pop up on that youtube video, app or game - that's not important, the key is someone has paid for you to potentially see their advert (recent research says 60% of the adds on Google are never seen)
So here's an idea...big tech pays for our time
Heard the saying "time is money" So why are we not getting paid for our time?
10 dollars per hour based on the above figs would be $606 per month. Considering the billions in turnover, we are the vital component of this income, shouldn't we be accepted as a cost?
We would need to protect the younger members of our society, who already spend far too much time on their devices. Payments only begin once people have completed their education including university or left school and over 18 years-old.
Governments could agree to not collect taxes from tech companies if they made this payment - personal taxes would continue as they do now, with tax on income over certain amounts. This would save governments the near impossible task of trying to collect taxes from tech co's...which is currently proving harder than holding a snake covered in olive oil with your eyes shut.
Now you may be thinking this is going to increase our use of devices and apps, and yes that may be true. The clever ones among you may well have worked out that you could leave apps open all day (which currently happens if you don't actually close them after use). Tech co's could limit the amount they pay and hey if you leave the app open they get a sneaky extra from the deal.
± 34 Big Tech
Yeah, totally with you, such a massive waste of time and energy, but its so frigging difficult to get off those apps!
Tech companies are mining our data, pushing ads, paying little or zero taxes with no effective legal controls.
Its like a Swiss bank account being run by super nerdy gangsters, that we're paying into daily.
Looking up the definition of a parasite is interesting is says:
A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little back.. an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism
Okay check this little calculation...let's say you spend 2 hours a day on your device.
2 hours x 7 days = 14 hours per week
14 hours x 52 weeks = 728 hours
728 divided by 16 hours (awake time per day) = 45.5 days
45.5 x 10 years = 455 days
Over 10 years you have spent 455 days = 1 year 2 months on your device.
3 hours = 1 year 8 months.
Big tech don't sell our data, they sell our attention. Offering our attention as opportunities to businesses.
Essentially our time is the product. The longer you stay on their platform the more power you give them to sell ads - you may never click though to the pop up on that youtube video, app or game - that's not important, the key is someone has paid for you to potentially see their advert (recent research says 60% of the adds on Google are never seen)
So here's an idea...big tech pays for our time
Heard the saying "time is money" So why are we not getting paid for our time?
10 dollars per hour based on the above figs would be $606 per month. Considering the billions in turnover, we are the vital component of this income, shouldn't we be accepted as a cost?
We would need to protect the younger members of our society, who already spend far too much time on their devices. Payments only begin once people have completed their education including university or left school and over 18 years-old.
Governments could agree to not collect taxes from tech companies if they made this payment - personal taxes would continue as they do now, with tax on income over certain amounts. This would save governments the near impossible task of trying to collect taxes from tech co's...which is currently proving harder than holding a snake covered in olive oil with your eyes shut.
Now you may be thinking this is going to increase our use of devices and apps, and yes that may be true. The clever ones among you may well have worked out that you could leave apps open all day (which currently happens if you don't actually close them after use). Tech co's could limit the amount they pay and hey if you leave the app open they get a sneaky extra from the deal.
