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If the one thing people revolt over is those companies, that consumerism, then our civilization is dead and it is not worth to save it.

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That is a very strange way of looking at things. Should people not get upset at their desires being interfered with based upon some arrogant busybody's concept of the ideal? For the crime of being liked by too many people?

Frankly declaring a civilization dead over not doing what you want sounds very much like an egocentric "elite tantrum". Like all of the arrogants who think that they can know the best interests of others better than them in spite of the fact that every time that has tried it just amounts to an unaccountable autocracy. After all the nobility were supposed to 'know better' for the peasantry and represent them.

Yes. But that would happen, just need to check Nepal

I think that's quite an unfair misrepresentation of what happened in Nepal which had many confounding factors and was years in the making. The narrative that it was "just gen z wanting their apps" only serves the purposes of the old regime.

this can be said about any revolt against any government. It is not a coincidence that there are riots when governments try to regulate apps.

Can that not be said of any revolt?

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