In the past few decades we’ve rapidly seen corporations exploiting the network externality become the most powerful entities in the history of the Earth.
“Join our app and keep using it. Or lose your friends, job, housing access.” From frivolities like playlist sharing and comment section through social media through actual job and house tools. Even your own legal identity in some countries.
We are being drowned by these corporations but most people don’t see the water or question if they should be legal. Dagny Taggart and Francisco d’Anconia crawled back out of hell up on the throne and are choking us all with their freedom. We need freedom from their freedom to chain us and loot from us.
Make it illegal. Network effect applications (whether it’s software, hardware, or services) can’t be proprietary.
It’s not gonna get any easier in the future if Meta, Alphabet, and Apple continue to grow. Fixing this sooner is better than later.