abraker wrote:
Some struggling startups are looking to expand their customer base and feel like they hit a road block. While some contact us, we usually contact them and offer grants for R&D, engineering developments, or some other thing they need big bucks for, in exchange for some of the consumer data they have gathered over the years. As you know, customer data is one of the most important things for fortune 500 companies. Big buyers like Corruption Corp., Too Big Too Fail Inc., and Illegal Scandal Producer Co. aquire customer data for huge sums of money, often enough to allow us to supply the petty startups. It's a win-win for us! They would become bigger and become buyers of our data and we become bigger to become better sellers of data. Best part is that the poor saps who try to avoid having their data collection by the fortune 500 still have their data collection by startups, and they don't suspect a thing.
So you are like a middleman between big and small corp? That is really smart, I can see that getting seriously big in only a small amount of time.
I don't know a lot about the rest of the Fortune 500, but Dawn Defense is a top5 company as you know and I do know quite a lot about them. Basically: They are always on the lookout for more data.
One strategy they succesfully applied over the years was, that they would enter the market in particularly crime-ridden areas and offer their protection+ contracts for only a fraction of the cost to a part of the population (lets say in neighborhood A). Things would usually go really bad after that, because with a part of the population now being under the protection of DDefense, crime would usually start shifting to be concentrated on everyone that DOESN'T have a DDefense contract (say everyone in Neighborhood B). Neighborhood B would see sharply increasing crime rates over a span of only weeks, and since there is not a lot of money there, no other defense contractor would be willing to offer protection as that would incur great financial losses. Then after shit goes really bad in neighborhood B, DDefense would, as the only firm, enter the market and offer contracts for insanely high prices. Didn't I just say entering such a market would be a financial loss? Yes, but here is the catch: Just before they entered the market, they terminated all the contracts in neighborhood A, making crime shift back there, meaning that neighborhood B practically became safer over night without DDefense even having done any protecting. B-neighborhood inhabitans would often still buy the insanely overpriced contracts, even though crime went back to being unconcentrated again.
Influencing crime-rates for financial gain by selling only to parts of the population is a strategy that DDefense perfected over the years, but to know where exactly this strategy is best employed, information is critical. They would be very interested in dealing with you I am sure.
B1rd wrote:
Wouldn't it be terrible if our own states were already spying on us who can then lock us in jail for breaking one of the 10,000 victimless crimes and there was nothing we could do about it. Oh wait...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
There are some things to be said about the old system, but at least everyone could go to elementary school there. I heard that education firms upped their rates AGAIN recently. Competition is dead in that field, it's all just one big cartel. It used to just be higher education, but now... Price fixing basically ruined even the most basic education for the bottom 20% of the population. Imagine being born in a family like that..