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by Frieren 28 days ago
> only the large corporations can make money from content.

It is an aristocratic tax. Nobility has the right to profit on everything that the peasants produce. The peasants can keep enough to survive, everything else should be extracted.

The middle ages didnt happen because people was stupid but because there is a pressure for the money elite to extract as much value as possible. Democracy was designed to control that bad outcome, but the new aristocracy (billionaires, CEOs, etc.) is trying to kill democracy for good.

If the average working class Joe wants to have something more than scraps we are going to need to take power back and fix democracy.

Google is just a symptom of the disease.