Whenever I see a high budget documentary critical of big corporations advertised at the top of the world's biggest streaming service, I think "this will either be pure propaganda or a limited hangout"
I was already kinda aware of this from reading on survailence capitalism.
My wife got alot from watching it me not so much. I am bothered by the fact alot of these guys made their money and knew of the issued as they tried to protect their children and just now decided to whistleblow.
Also as another poster said they do everything just shy of connecting capitalism to the problem.
yeah like not even a prompt about profit corrupting or being beholden to share holders
I rate it a solid Hm/10. It's interesting as it's from the horses mouth so to say, but it's conclusions are very impotent. It really suffers for how liberal it is. Like Shoshana Zuboff, who wrote The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, is interviewed but she
isn't allowed todoesn't mention anything about capitalism being bad. Also, it ironically talks a lot about how conspiracy theories propagate, but also functions as a kinda conspiracy about how nation states pay for conflicts using facebook ads?Idk it's not like a waste of time, but it's target audience is definitely like armchair libs who want to feel a little "oh my :o" but not feel any inclination to do anything
And like I don't even think it had to be anticapitalist or anything, the conclusion could have been decentralisation/non-profit/nationalise etc
It's alright if you're not deeply familiar with the problem. If you are, you're not gonna learn a lot of new things.
Some parts are very cringy, like a white dude ignorant of history making an analogy that "nobody got upset when bicycles showed up" (which is just ridiculous).
