> As soon as the general public cares and forces the issues.
That is not how oligopoly and antitrust work. If producers don't actually make products that have the features available, there is no actual market for those products, and market pressure is the only means by which the general public has in order to force responsiveness.
The general public can never force the issue. Government granted subsidies, and regulation make this a captive market, where the costs are too deep for new market entrants, and only the people currently sitting at the table of each company will have a say; the same as happened during the time of robber barons.
There is a reason over the past 30 years business has become so concentrated, and that cycle will continue until it cannot.
Its not that no one cares about privacy. Its that no can do anything about it, they've been stripped of their agency because law wasn't enforced in a timely fashion, and elected representatives violated their oaths by largely ceding authority to their political party, and failing to be responsive to their constituents and slow moving crises. In other words, failing to act as a whole (paralysis).
This shows a broader issue that unfortunately follows the same failure modes as what happened with the Roman Republic.
Here is a side-by-side lineup.
You have two caste groups, the haves and the have nots (patrician's and plebeians),the middle class largely is gone now. Growing economic inequality (through money-printing as opposed to expansion), land reform issues (farmers losing their farms and being unable to economically compete as a function of government regulation/subsidy), corruption (at all levels), the erosion of separation of powers (stacking courts, kingmaking via superpac), infighting among the house of representatives and senate (political parties that abstain or veto solely on party lines); create political paralysis, and for roughly the past 70 years there has been groups made up of government and private business funded indirectly by government, seeking empire (through debt/money-printing), where they do so largely through private armies. The latter most was written about by Perkins in his Economic Hitman series.
trod1234|1 year ago
That is not how oligopoly and antitrust work. If producers don't actually make products that have the features available, there is no actual market for those products, and market pressure is the only means by which the general public has in order to force responsiveness.
The general public can never force the issue. Government granted subsidies, and regulation make this a captive market, where the costs are too deep for new market entrants, and only the people currently sitting at the table of each company will have a say; the same as happened during the time of robber barons.
There is a reason over the past 30 years business has become so concentrated, and that cycle will continue until it cannot.
Its not that no one cares about privacy. Its that no can do anything about it, they've been stripped of their agency because law wasn't enforced in a timely fashion, and elected representatives violated their oaths by largely ceding authority to their political party, and failing to be responsive to their constituents and slow moving crises. In other words, failing to act as a whole (paralysis).
This shows a broader issue that unfortunately follows the same failure modes as what happened with the Roman Republic.
Here is a side-by-side lineup.
You have two caste groups, the haves and the have nots (patrician's and plebeians),the middle class largely is gone now. Growing economic inequality (through money-printing as opposed to expansion), land reform issues (farmers losing their farms and being unable to economically compete as a function of government regulation/subsidy), corruption (at all levels), the erosion of separation of powers (stacking courts, kingmaking via superpac), infighting among the house of representatives and senate (political parties that abstain or veto solely on party lines); create political paralysis, and for roughly the past 70 years there has been groups made up of government and private business funded indirectly by government, seeking empire (through debt/money-printing), where they do so largely through private armies. The latter most was written about by Perkins in his Economic Hitman series.
The dynamics and their comparisons are striking.