Not to mention that not a dime would go to individuals. Companies like Reddit, Getty, Adobe and Penguin have all the data, we already gave it to them a long time ago.
This is one of the big reasons I never did 23andMe. Don’t get me wrong, I’m super curious about what it has to tell me, but giving (paying to give it actually) my DNA to a private company that’s amassing a huge repository of human DNA is a terrible idea.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gonna be real with you because at work directly with these companies in helping do this type of thing exactly: it’s astromically high already, and nowhere near profitable. It’s all startup grift.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 year ago
"It's already bad so we might as well make it incredibly worse" is not a very compelling argument IMO.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you suggesting everyone just go along with it?
If anyone was looking for the plant, here you go^^^
FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm suggesting that we should not do the thing that will make everything incredibly worse.
Who do you think I'm a "plant" for? I'm advising the course of action that would be less advantageous for big corporations, so what, I'm a plant for the little guy?