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US tech is built almost entirely on theft:

- App-based work is only viable because it bypasses employment protections and imposes huge costs on the workers (average wage often below minimum wage) and society (extra traffic, idling and double-parked cars, speeding drivers, accidents & deaths).

- Social media is only viable because it's built entirely on the unpaid work of its users; in the subset of cases where it is paid it's only an ad revenue split, thus the user bears all risk, and even the users' work is often stolen from others

- Amazon steals from retailers through monopolistic practices, all US retailers steal from Chinese workers who get worse protections and a lower quality of life than the westerners buying the products they make

- Apple steals from developers through monopolistic practices

It's straight-up colonialism.