{"id":12689,"date":"2020-05-03T02:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12689"},"modified":"2020-05-03T02:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:11:36","slug":"only-ones-with-real-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12689","title":{"rendered":"Only ones with real immunity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-Immmunity-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-Immmunity-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-Immmunity-3-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-Immmunity-3-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now, as we turn to the healthy companies to help us revive the economy,<strong> it could be that the only ones with real immunity are the tech giants<\/strong>. In this way, Covid-19 has accelerated their rise and tightened their grip on our lives. And this consolidation of power, combined with Big Tech\u2019s control of data, automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, medi<strong>a<\/strong>, advertising, retail and even autonomous tech, is daunting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/court-painter-immune-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/court-painter-immune-1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/court-painter-immune-1-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Big Tech stocks, which were hit in the first weeks of the pandemic, are on an upward march to the top of the market-cap heap. Microsoft at $1.32 trillion.  Apple at $1.26 trillion. Amazon at $1.14 trillion. Alphabet at $900 billion. Facebook at $577 billion.&nbsp; This group now makes up just over 20 percent of the S.&amp;P. 500, which is a flashing yellow signal of what is to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpted from <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Immunity of the Tech Giants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Kara Swisher<\/strong>  May 1, 2020 New York Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12695\" width=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-immunity.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-immunity.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-immunity-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tech-immunity-768x617.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-immunity-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-immunity-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-immunity-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-immunity-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now, as we turn to the healthy companies to help us revive the economy, it could be that the only ones with real immunity are the tech giants. In this way, Covid-19 has accelerated their rise and tightened their grip on our lives. And this consolidation of power, combined with Big Tech\u2019s control of data, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only ones with real immunity&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12702,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions\/12702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}