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I hope the glasses break on their face. But:
The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media.
…Can people not see this is the root problem?
These asswipes make a living being asswipes because Google, Meta, or Tiktok pay them to. Thats the root incentive. Most wouldnt risk all that trouble unless it was their living.
In other words, I dont want the moral of the story to be “this wouldnt happen without Meta glasses.” The platform subsidizing those glasses is the ultimate problem.
There’s also the root problem of employees having no agency to kick out misbehaving people. There’s this whole “the customer is king” ethos in American commerce and this is enabling the worst people to harass people without any consequences. If you are getting kicked out and banned from most stores in your town because you are an abusive asshole, you might think again about your behavior and maybe even change. If everything that is coming from your bad behavior is that some random employee is getting fired, yes, this will enable even worse behaviour.
I mean, would a culture change even make a difference? Police were involved here, but they did not care because thats just more video views.
Theres already the risk of getting fired from one’s job, but again; this is their living.
I’ve looked into this locally and a number of stores ban filming inside without written corporate permission, some ban smart glasses outright and it seems reasonable to assume smart glasses are filming if worn. Just a path for any retail workers reading to pursue their own workplace ban through management, hr, corporate or other means.
I see a lot of honest YouTubers who break their backs putting together quality educational hobby content and over time I have followed some as their numbers climb and it turns into more of a full time thing for them.
And then I see these brainrot morons pulling down 1000x the numbers and it’s just crushing. I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.
I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.
It’s not entirely their choice. The algorithm decides what’s presented.
It does so based on their inputs though. That doesn’t mean people are entirely in charge, but I think it’s wrong to say they have no involvement and just receive whatever the silicon genie dictates.
In my line of work you would be terminated on the spot if you wore these to work. I have sections of the facility that a fit bit would get you escorted off site and likely lose your job.
What if we punished crimes instead of monetizing them? We’ve had a multimedia Internet for a generation now, we could do this.
My new go to is to stop the conversation, tell them to tell their glasses, out loud, to stop recording. If they dont then that conversation is over.
Period.How many people have these things that you are running into multiple users? I haven’t seen one yet
3 or 4 people in the last month. People are buying them like crazy apparently. Bunch a weirdos.
“A social internet cleansed of all content that takes advantage of others would be quite empty.” I’m not seeing a problem here.
I was chatting with our CEO the other day and the topic of recording glasses came up. He said they are band in the company, and they’ve had conversations with their lawyers, that also say not to allow them. I was happy to hear that.
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