tuxwise<p>(12/N) A fifth category of adversaries:</p><p><strong>🦕 Business(i)es</strong></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a>(i)es want to extract <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> from you. Preferably, but not necessarily in legal, sustainable, and the cheapest possible ways.</p><p>Your assets are seen as levers to generate more profit, because they betray what is meaningful to you, and worth investing into, in your eyes.</p><p>Businessies disguise their factual indifference towards your specific assets by enthusiastically pretending to "care" as much for them as you do, to achieve the "Nessie effect": on the surface, always appear likeable, despite your size, and in spite of what you are actually pursuing under the surface.</p><p>This category is the widest of all. Nearly all businessies participate in <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a>, either by directly aggregating every tidbit of your data in a <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/profile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profile</span></a>, in return for a service that is allegedly "free" – and later selling targeted access to you; or by paying <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> for access to potential customers that fit very specific criteria.</p><p>(to be continued)</p><p>Start of this thread:<br><a href="https://mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228291818865" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228</span><span class="invisible">291818865</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/ThreadModeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreadModeling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/4D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4D</span></a></p>