How do you think it works?

software and hardware are not the valuable part of the equation...

Selling software and selling hardware, is largely ... inconsequential in value to the companies that know where the profits are.

it is not the software and the hardware that has all the value - although, by the price tag, you'd think it was.  What generates all the value from this software and hardware...

wait for it.

You.

Billions of pieces of aggregate data, advanced sophisticated mathematical models ... knowing what people know and how they think; that is how you make money.

This is why; I think, this aggregate value, should be provided back to the user ... the company that seems to do this best is Google; there are others with mixing success ...

In the grand scheme of things; given the vast violation to what would seem basic rights (although you just click them right away; and the government admits they are no longer valid anyway) ... I digress... what is the point of this post?

You are valuable; you deserve to be reimbursed by the value we have all created in aggregate - and yet, the very companies that make all this money manage to avoid paying any taxes...

So lets tack that on ... we also cover the cost to run the government for these companies... parasites is an understatement ... its profit on profit on profit on profit... that none of the rest of us are afforded, even though we are the source of it.

Jesus #Flaming Christ ... I don't like to rant... but I suppose I can't help myself now and again.