The number of people in my mentions saying, “you don’t hate Google, you hate capitalism”.
Now, I’m on Mastodon, so I can see why you would think that. But no.
Turns out capitalism does *not* require monopolistic practices. In fact, the world did capitalism for quite some time without encouraging those.
You can do capitalism and still punish overreach! Typically with laws, but taxes also work.
Capitalism does not mean “no taxes”. That’s just what the USA and UK would like you to believe.
@samir capitalism trends toward monopolies and rewards companies that behave badly (a race to the bottom where people say, "if I didn't do this someone else would"). We've been through similar periods before (eg the gilded age). Google's behaviour is natural and consistent with that order. But the accusation against you is a bit like saying you shouldn't hate a wife beater, you should hate the uncle that sexually abused him. It doesn't help anyone.