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And never work for any company ever, apparently.
If my place of business goes bankrupt, is Google going to get access to my employment records? The memes I share in work chats? My disciplinary record? My bank account details I used for direct deposit?
If someone puts that they worked at Spirit on a resume, what is the likelihood that job openings will start to query these things to see how far they can lowball someone on wages, or whether they're a "difficult" employee? This is shit that runs the risk of following someone for life.
The endgame is eugenics too. Only the "perfrct" human gets allowed to survive, making it impossible for people with even a small mark on their record to survive.
That... Feels a bit much. We can agree data collection like this is bad without conspiracy theories like that.
You can deduce from the way behave, and what they say.
Peter Thiel did mention humans will end up like horses going to the glue factory.
There's currently an ethnic cleansing of America, and disability/medicare is intentionaly being withdrawn.