worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options
(emphasys mine)
Financially, giving the higher price to those who have fewer options is exactly “what it should be” so it makes sense that a pattern finding algorithm trained to find patterns in user data that make them likely to agree to higher prices produces such a result.
It’s Ethically and Morally that this is the very opposite of “what it should be”.
The higher a percentage of your income is the price of something, the more reason there is to allocate time to find the best price - if something costs you an amount which you earn in 5 minutes, it’s not really worth it to spend time looking for the better price, if it costs an amount which you earn in 2 months, it’s definitelly worth to spend at least several hours looking around.
Granted, as you say, many don’t have the time to do this (though often the Maths for literally taking time of work to do it, do add up), and in my experience most people don’t really make the mental connection between an amount they’re considering spending and how long do they have to work to earn it hence don’t really look around enough when it’s financially logical to do it.
That said, for the reason I gave above, the rich don’t really care about things that “just” cost a couple thousand of dollars, which is why they casually just rent a private jet for a trip - there’s a whole industry for that - or even own one and employ a pilot for it fulltime.
That’s not even close to a proper test of Linux womanhood/manhood.
There are Russians who are more tech savvy than you would expect, but in average they’re just like the rest.
One would expect that in Russia, like everywhere, the kind of people hired to manage the IT infrastructure in most companies are not the “hacker elite” (unless the company gets one purely by luck)
The only shocking thing here is that a military manufacturer - which one would expect to try a bit harder to find the kind of systems manager that can harden their internal systems - seems to have not properly hardenned/segregated their systems.
Then again, maybe they’re not totally incompetent and do have their mission critical stuff air-gapped and the damage done by the Ukranian hackers is less impactful than the headline implies. From the outside it’s hard to tell.
In the day immediatelly after the US bombing of Iran we had a guy on TV here in Portugal using exactly this kind of argumentation (he used at least 2 or 3 “arguments” which were very much the same as the propaganda for the second Iraq war).
He was from some Think Tank and I looked it up and it that turns out it’s pro-US pro-Israel pro-Nato and basically aligned with the Fascists from before the Revolution who “turned” Democrats.
The various Propaganda outlets set up in Europe by the US for decades probably pass their propaganda cheatsheets around.
Mind you, the guy seemed weirdly unconfortable whilst spewing that shit.
Most people don’t even boycot companies for doing this shit.