[orange_joe]

I’d love to build tools that automatically exercise your rights as a consumer against these large corporations. The simple truth is that they rely on the social norms of a society as weapons against them, whilst simultaneously breaking the codified ones.

[commonlisp94]

> they rely on the social norms of a society

Norms like being honest and not stealing? society gets really expensive and unfriendly when we have to use enforcement instead of norms.

[YeBanKo]

Can confirm. Cost of transactions in trust-less societies is a very heavy burden. Also, it goes hand in hand with corruption.

[hanniabu]

They rely on people not knowing their rights or not having the time/ability to fight them.

It's not just a corporate thing, but a problem in the US as a whole that the government banks on. When people are overworked, underpaid, and uneducated then they don't have the time/ability to keep up with politics, fight for their rights, and see how they've been getting fucked by local, state, and federal government for decades.