Meta isn't buying technology. Meta is buying you.

Listen. Meta isn’t buying technology. Meta is buying you. Piece by piece. Every click, every hesitation, every half-baked thought you haven’t even finished yet.

The digital butler that spies on you

Soon there’ll be a Manus agent in your WhatsApp managing your shopping list. Cute, right? A digital servant. Except that servant doesn’t work for you. It reports to Zuckerberg. Every action is a data point. Every choice that thing makes on your behalf reveals what you want. Before you even know it yourself.

You get a butler and an informant rolled into one. Thanks for that.

The numbers don’t lie

The numbers are laughable: Eleven percent of companies actually run this stuff. Forty percent of projects collapse. Two billion dollars for unproven technology.

They call it innovation. I call it a gamble with other people’s money and your privacy as collateral.

The hidden labor

And then there’s the manual labor. One hundred forty-seven trillion tokens. No algorithm did that. People did.

People staring at violent content for a few dollars a day. People without contracts, without unions, without the faintest clue what they’re making possible. But that doesn’t fit the press release.

Who actually wins here?

Meta gets your behavioral patterns. Shareholders get a nice story. Workers in the Global South get starvation wages.

And you? You get a smart assistant that relays everything back to Silicon Valley. Brilliant system. You pay with your soul and get convenience in return.