I'm not singling out any one company. Walmart did indeed pioneer labor exploitation. Amazon just made it more efficient. Facebook, Google got rich off surveilli

I'm not singling out any one company. Walmart did indeed pioneer labor exploitation. Amazon just made it more efficient. Facebook, Google got rich off surveilling users and eroding user privacy rights. Focusing on some specific companies serves to obfuscate the fact that this is an exploitative economy built up over decades with policies that weakened society at large. A relatively tiny section of society became powerful enough to rearrange society to their benefit. Bring up the topic of central planning and you'll have everyone pointing out the folly of putting all the power in the hands of a few people. Our corporation ruled society is not that far off from a centrally planned dystopia. Instead of patting our backs comparing ourselves to the communist bloc, we need to focus on the technology we have today and what possibilities the technology could have opened up, and ask why the said possibilities haven't become a reality.