I do indeed pay for this crap...but what are my options? When Amazon had the one-click patent, I boycotted them for the better part of a decade. They didn't n

I do indeed pay for this crap...but what are my options? When Amazon had the one-click patent, I boycotted them for the better part of a decade. They didn't notice, and I missed out on some of their best service years, when deliveries arrived on time and products were legit When blizzard cracked down excessively on bnetd, I boycotted them for several years. They didn't notice, and while gaming is not a big part of my life I was a warcraft and starcraft fan that missed out on the original sc1 competitive scene (as a fan, not participant), warcraft 3, and this little thing that grew into DOTA. Had I treated comcast the same way for their many and continued terrible behaviors, i doubt I'd have the job and experienced I have today. The issue is not that _I_ pay for this, it is that WE do, and long term vision is a noted human weakness that _I_ lack the power to change no matter how many times I inform the internet that it is wrong (j/k). I dont have a real solution to offer, but if we think the system is broken, just trying the same ineffective solution over and over won't change it. And if you think the system is great (as the article does)..well, I'll have to disagree. Mass market capitalism has done great things and I wouldn't want to toss it wholesale, but one need only look at the environment (and consider the software environment as well, to keep it topical) to realize there is room for improvement - improvement that doesn't magically happen on it's own when people simply embrace what we have and stop there.