They're Looting the Internet

Since you obviously weren't around in the 1960s 70s, you seem unaware that the overwhelming majority of corporate and social reform that improved the modern world originated in that era.

Yea, I've lived through a few "cultural shifts", and none of them were in the last 30 years. The last several decades have been a pure war and corporate power pep rally.

Starting in the 80s (with Ronny Rayguns) followed by the Clinton administration's US version of Tony Blair taking the DEMs for a hard right turn into previous REP territory, it's continued downhill into today's quagmire.

We all thought the "culture wars" were over in 1979 and that ongoing progress would result because it's "already changing among the people".

Let me clue you into something that it's not possible to comprehend until you get closer to the far side of middle age: as your cohort ages, and becomes more invested in the status quo, many of those idealistic imperatives will evaporate. This has little to do with the era, and everything to do with the position in life of the individual. Believe it or not, your cohort will be the new boomers.

If anything, from my perspective, it's clear that the lives of the millennial generations are SO entangled in corporate platforms, it's pretty much impossible for them to fight back against the corps.

When I see the majority of zoomers throwing out their phones because the corps that operate those platforms are practicing pure exploitation, then I'll believe that significant change is possible in the new millennium.

At this point, I see no social movement with sufficient breadth to bring about the kind of changes needed to correct the ever increasing exploitation for profit.

WRT the specific topic of the article, it's clear the author is not of the neo-liberal capitalist strain, because if he were, then everything he cites would be presented as a good thing. According to right-wing-nut-ism, squeezing the workers and customers to bring more to the shareholders is how it's SUPPOSED to work. Goggle and Amazonia are working exactly according to plan.

This is the fundamental flaw of modern (especially US) capitalism. Shareholder return is the ONLY metric. It's not that it's the most important thing, its that it's the only thing. This is not an oversight, this is by design.

Since most people seem unable, or unwilling, to see our current situation as a result of rampant runaway capitalism, this trend will continue to get worse.

Take a picture now, because in a couple of years these are going to be the "good old days"...

People realized fascism was bad pretty quickly.

How many people do realize that we are suffocating in plastic, killing the environment and filling our minds with crap in the name of profit, today?