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The fact that "voting with money" concept seems to be too hard to grasp for the most people is moderately disturbing TBH.
This Uber-isation of everything — probably not the best term, but here is what I mean: people expect there to be this bar with five stars for everything. E.g. we don't like "capitalism" (whatever they mean by that) — so let us… No, not build our own communities/products/whatever where we decide for ourselves — let's just whine about it online! So they don't want the corpos gone, they just want them to do a better job — might be a viable strategy, but there are lots of cases when people are fucked over with this approach — they are still given the five star bar — but the backend behind this widget is missing — it's not connected anywhere, there is no real feedback, and yet, they keep giving it one star, and get frustrated when things don't improve despite that — some cargo cult shit. The majority isn't ready to make any sacrifices at all for things to improve in the long term.
But not everyone — and this gives room for hope. Some international tech corporations turned to be more evil than they used to be, but there's choice, there are smaller companies that do a pretty good job with hardware, there's free software that is mostly ready to use and there are decentralized alternatives to online shit.
Overall it's not that bad!
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