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Week 12 [18.06-24.06.2018] The biggest companies and us

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Did you ever consider how big companies influence on our lives?
In this talk you can get to know one of the many points of view. 
Enjoy.



Do you agree with the presenter? Or do you think this is a nonsense? Why?

Have you ever seen those companies from that perspective?

What is your attitude to the listed companies?

Do you feel some kind emotionally manipulated by those companies?

Comments

Iman Masjedi said…
I agree with the speaker's talk of this video.
In my opinion, technology companies have infiltrated us in all aspects of our lives and even our minds, and have slave us their own technologies.
It can be very dangerous, because we are dependent on things that, on the one hand, are now recognized as the old needs of mankind, and on the other hand, they depend heavily on solving this need for addiction to these technologies.
These technologies have simplified our lives, but at the same time they have made us more dependent on their customer and slave.
They charge us some of our free services in return for receiving our free information.
21 June 2018 at 15:10
Unknown said…
I agree with you, we usually do not have a chance to change the service and we need to agree to their policy.
23 June 2018 at 13:40
Illia Kalinin said…
I agree with the speaker, surely big big companies have influence on a regular people and they know how to manipulate to get a profit. Yes I've heard about google and facebook, my attitude is fine, but my opinion is that these companies secretly hold all information about us and surely control the world. I feel emotional manipulation every day, especially in facebook with all these emoji's and memes.
24 June 2018 at 16:38
Cezary Szymkiewicz said…
It is so well know that huge corporations are messing with us, manipulating etc. but in most part we don't care as we don't feel this influence. I don't really care about them, gathering information about me becouse if you are self awared about your privacy and what is happening right now you can take some adventages of it. Still you have to be careful and smart. You have to always think about what you are doin and if you have to do it. This topic is so big, that i would make here another presentation so yeah... I think everyone have to watch this video if they didn't and think about it a bit.
24 June 2018 at 22:28
Andrii Konstantinov said…
I agree with the speaker, big companies set the trends and make us believe that things that they've developed are brand new and it should be part of our every day life. I also knew about google and facebook before but this is not so important for me.

I feel that I am emotionally manipulated with Apple's iPhone X design. Since they reales their brand new smartphone almost every single(except samsung and some others) started making exactly the same design. It's hard for me to get used to it and I consider this design to be disgusting. It just makes me sick. If it means emotionally manipulated than i definitely am.
24 June 2018 at 22:34
Uladzialsu BArdzinovich said…
I really like his metaphor on how Apple is like a religion, I have abolished the company's products at all costs because I always felt it was like a form of consumer slavery. We keep buying the next device year after year, disregarding the amount of technological waste being left behind and the amount of money from our pockets that is demanded. They rip you off with fallacies of justification like its superior to others or its normal to have one or more. They have brainwashed us to believe that this is vitally important in making us feel better about ourselves without some of us even realizing it. They make u think that they care about your well-being when really, like what Scott was saying, they only care about shareholder growth, simply capitalism. It's gotten so bad that in many situations of my life where my android phone has died at work, coworkers have offered their apple chargers without even thinking I would have had another phone. They expect you to be normal like any curious person would but it's scary because Apple has redefined the "societal norms".
24 June 2018 at 23:04
Peter Clemenza said…
Have you ever seen those companies from that perspective?
Yes, human is just an another brick in the wall.

What is your attitude to the listed companies?
My attitude is fairly neutral

Do you feel some kind emotionally manipulated by those companies?
Everyone just want's to maximie their profit, its not a big deal
25 June 2018 at 01:53
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