Are you willing to take a significant salary cut to benefit people?

All the big tech companies, Google, Meta, Netflix, etc make a huge amount of money by using Ads to push things people don't need onto them, brainwashing people. This brainwashing is massively more effective with data-collection.

If tech companies didn't hoard and sell people's data, the brainwashing would be less profitable, Google would pay lower salaries, and the entire industry's salaries would go down as a result.

Salaries in the US might drop from ~$500k to $250k for an average software engineer. Would you be willing to take that sort of cut?

You could also "vote with your feet" and move to europe where the GDPR protects everyone like you want, and your salary will drop to maybe $100k USD.

> If tech companies didn't hoard and sell people's data, the brainwashing would be less profitable, Google would pay lower salaries, and the entire industry's salaries would go down as a result.

I’d like to see data on this. Obviously Oracle and Meta and companies that agressively track you would be impacted, but how much would Google search be changed if it wasn’t personalized? Would there be a meaningful financial impact?

Also as far as I understand, data brokers tend to exclude meta, Google, et al because they don’t sell their data they just use it internally. This could further entrench these players more.

You think the average software engineer in the US makes half a million dollars?

I don't work for ads.

thats a strawman, its not like advertisement & brainwashing people is the only way to make money in tech. I am old enough to have seen how valley was before this big-tech ad garbage showed up. In fact I'd say all this power with 7 or so big tech is hindering innovation, so, IMnsHO Fuck 'em all.

Asking 300M people to leave country and move to europe instead of fixing problems here is just stupid and at best a shoddy attempt at victim blaming.