You don't want the government to tell you what to do. I get that.
You're your own boss and nobody can tell you what to do! Right?
Well, maybe just your boss. And your partner. And your children. And your mother.
But no one else! Really! Because you have free will and have the right to use that all the time! Right?
So, how many hours in last week was it really you and just you who decided what you did?
Was it really you who deciced not to go for a walk because it was raining? Or did the rain actually decide for you?
Was it really you who decided what to watch or was it a recomendation when you opened the Netflix-app? Or did you see it because a friend said you should?
Did you decide what posts you saw on Facebook or did some algorithm float some posts for you to see, without showing you posts by other Facebook friends?
Did you decide what song was played next from your speakers or did a dj or the Spotify algorithm decide for you?
Did you decide to buy or rent the house you're living in now? Or did 'the market' or perhaps your partner decide?
Our whole life we let other people and circumstances decide for us. More and more those people are replaced by algorithms: Google dishes up links when we look for something, social media decides what we see and read, Netflix decides what movies and series we can or can't watch (in the US you can watch series people in other people can't) and advertisements make us buy stuff and services we never chose to want.
Yes, I get it that you don't want the government to decide for you.
But do you really want Siri to tell you what you can, can't or should do?
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