Don't understand your parent comment as something insightful or with good information density. Its function is cultural. We need reminders from time to time tha

Don't understand your parent comment as something insightful or with good information density. Its function is cultural. We need reminders from time to time that corporations default to evil if not left unchecked. We need rally points to assure us that we are not alone in condemning corporate greed and ruthlessness, in fighting against neo-liberalism. If you just accept the status quo without any form of pushback, you risk leaving the fine line of realism and stray into complicity. And you are right, nothing that they would realistically have said would have satisfied me. But that is because they have set themselves up for failure long before. Quoting from GordonS above [1]: > I get what you are saying, but I gave little sympathy for their situation - they used the VC tactic of "give it away to gain and monopolise the market, then do the old switcheroo once we're #1", so they had to know what was coming. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296527