18 points
provide just enough service that you don’t go elsewhere.
It’s not even that, is it? As long as they can force you to use their stuff it doesn’t even have to provide any service.
If there was a way for Google to hold you at gunpoint via internet until you pay them $100 every day they’d have a fiduciary duty to do so.
16 points
It’s… it’s almost as if the law about shareholder value as intended as a metaphor for accountability, not a literal, reductive claim that results in ouroboros. Almost like, our economic system is supposed to be a means, not an end in of itself?
No. Definitely can’t be that.