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Originally Posted by Zgrinch
Ok I get what you are saying, but my personal opinion is what you said in the last sentence.
I think it will ultimately will lead to higher rates, once it is the "norm" for most people and most carriers...
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Bazinga!
All we need to do is put ourselves in the shoes of a "profit at all costs" type of mindset (aka: every publicly traded company) and then think creatively. You know what the result is 9 out 10 times when we practice that thought experiment? The consumer loses...something. (money, freedom, privacy, choice, health, security, etc etc etc).
Big publicly traded corporations
DO NOT have your best interests in mind. A free market is only the decoy because the big game is limit your choices, leverage the market against you and control your behavior. Consider some folks are comfortable with "privacy-stripping-behavior-monitoring" by big corporate or big brother proves that their strategies are working.
But don't listen to me, this is coming from someone who thinks people who use Facebook have already sold their soul so after that what does it matter.
<---runs out to start a business in which we tattoo barcodes on people for the next cool "social networked thingy"... Oh wait, is that going too far?