I find this "I don't feel good about X, so I am going to propose abolishing X without realizing all the consequences of that" vibe silly and dangerous. From my car to my computer to the clothes I wear, to the medical equipment for my kids' births, etc - everything was produced, sourced, and sold, by a fairly large organization that has optimized for delivering that thing to me. Both the necessities and the comforts of my life are powered by this - and same with you unless you're pretty much living off the land.
If you don't like Amazon having your data, or whatever your issue is, don't use Amazon.
I literally said I'm not in support of my own dumb idea
I know things are more complicated
You, however, need a mirror. Everything you just said is a wonderful display of willful ignorance. Your head in the sand does not protect you from the world
Big Tech, in 2023, is effectively a governmental body. I mean all 7 (or whatever) of the largest companies. They operate in a wildly anti-competitive and anti-free-market way, rivaling even the Railroad tycoons of a bygone era.
I'm not anti-corporation, but there needs to be some effort put into correcting this. It's not going to fix itself.
Our country would be a lot better off with a lot of small businesses rather than a few gigantic businesses.
// Our country would be a lot better off with a lot of small businesses rather than a few gigantic businesses.
Is that true? Plenty (in fact, arguably most) countries have a much smaller ratio of "big" to "small" companies and many of those are not "a lot better off" than our country and quite to the contrary. So I don't buy this assumption.