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yeah, okay. as if it's possible for tech to be "kicked out" and "forced to get its shit together". reading this was awkward, I think it encourages looking at pr

yeah, okay. as if it's possible for tech to be "kicked out" and "forced to get its shit together". reading this was awkward, I think it encourages looking at products or corporations as a single entity that should have a moral compass or sense of responsibility. if people want to ditch tech, fine, but I wish in these comparisons it'd at least be acknowledged that corporations mainly exist to make money. I suppose it would require a large amount of humility to do that though as it would also be admitting to succumbing to advertising, and being "tricked" into expecting "real life change and support" from a product, or something like that. Thanks for posting this.

madhadron 9y ago
Actually, it's quite possible for tech to get kicked out. Facebook and Google are financially viable because keeping mass profiles and leveraging them for profit is legal at the moment. There's no intrinsic reason it should be. Uber is regularly kicked out of places, usually with justification. Its business model is to spent huge amounts of money undercutting the taxi industry until it is destroyed and no one has an option left. Then they hike the prices. This ignores the fact that municipalities can just take Uber's drivers under regulated rates and make Uber irrelevant again. Amazon's AWS is funding the rest of the company in their march to destroy all competition. It's the same model as Uber, but more viable, since you can't just legislate logistics into existence. All it would take is an antitrust action that breaks up Amazon in any way that separates AWS from the rest, or a law that voids Amazon's preferential treatment from carriers, including themselves, making shipping a common carrier.