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Sure, now let me know how that works when you have massive corporations, controlling products that you can't really move completely away from because there is s
by piva00 5y ago
Sure, now let me know how that works when you have massive corporations, controlling products that you can't really move completely away from because there is simply no competition, or they also serve (and get revenue from) part of the competition?
My choices are to simply completely disregard a huge chunk of the market, like messengers, I would have to communicate with my family on the other side of the world through some app that my parents or older family members would not use, I would have to train them because the massive corporations bought out all the competition, so I either suffer a massive pain in the ass on every corner of my life or I have to surrender my data. Because I have no other choice: it's my data or death through a thousand cuts over my life due to all the inconveniences when these corps sprawl over more and more markets with their unlimited cash machine coming from the crops of data from all people they sell profiles about.
Either give me regulations to never allow monopolies to ever hint at appearing in a free market or give me regulations about how well my personal data, something that tells a lot about me as a living person, will be treated, marketed, etc. It's a resource being extracted from me, so why the fuck can the free market bleed me out if they are also going to inconvenience my life by taking more and more market share?
The free market is an illusion, it's just an ideology. Not too dissimilar from believing in real communism.