What you're describing is the expected and correct outcome inside a profit-oriented, capitalist system. So the only way I see out of this situation would be changing policy to a more socialist one, which doesn't seem to be so popular among the tech elite, who often think they deserve their financial status because of the 'value' they provide, without specifying what that value is (or its second-order consequences). Whether that's abusing a monopolistic market position they lucked into, making apps as addictive as possible, or building drones that throw bombs on newborns in hospitals.
throwaway13337|4 days ago
Regulation enforcement against the anti-market behaviors would bring a lot of good.
Putting too much power in any centralized authority - company or government - seems to lead to oppression and unhealthy culture.
Fair markets are the neatest trick we have. They put the freedom of choice in the hands of the individual and allow organic collaboration.
The framing should not be government vs company. But distributed vs centralized power. For both governance and commerce.
The entire world right now suffers from too much centralized power. That comes in the form of both corporate and government. Power tends to consolidate until the bureaucracy of the approach becomes too inefficient and collapses under its own weight. That process is painful, and it's not something I enjoy living through.
If you see through that lens, it has explaining power for the problems of both the EU countries and the US.
peepee1982|3 days ago
I want things in society organized in a way that gives everyone agency, not just those adjacent to capital.
If a company employs me to extract value from my work, I want a vote in how that company operates. Not just one vote every four years in the hopes that policy will shift to benefit workers more over a few decades.
I want to be able to say no to doing a job without the existential threat of not getting another job offer ever, so I can base my decisions on my values, not my fear of not bein able to pay next month's rent.
Capitalism goes against that, because it centers profit hoarding and parasitic value extraction from the working class at the center of attention. It's an inhumane ideology at its core, and only even ever slightly successful in creating wealth because of all the socialist mechanisms wrapped around it to hold it together.
In essence: I want to abolish centralized power and class hierarchies.