Many companies sell your data to data brokers, and a phone number can act as a unique identifier across several data sources, allowing brokers to merge several data profiles together into a mega-profile about you.

The US can not afford to be divided like this right now, but what the hell can you guys do. Fucked situtation, I feel you

Good news, Moore’s law and dennard scaling is pretty much over. We could (in a better system) buy for the next decade. Unfortunately this is not profitable so it won’t happen