u/MorphingReality

These companies became more influential than most governments through the market, they 'earned' it by beating their competition, they 'deserve' the revenue and profit and power they have, and how they use it is up to the board and the owners, as long as they follow the law (or are okay with paying the fines for not following the law). It is a good thing that your employer is constantly monitoring you, lots of workers (especially the new generation, not like it used to be!) are lazy, and they are freeloading while you put in the effort. If the manager knows who is working the hardest, they know who to promote (trust me, that promotion is right around the corner, just keep working hard!). It is good that the company knows exactly how you as a consumer use the goods and services they provide, this allows them to refine the product to make you more likely to enjoy it (do not say addicted, and addiction is your fault, not the company's!). Anyway, if you have nothing to hide, if you are doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear? (Of course even a popular Star Wars show can answer that one, “I'm fearing your definition of wrong”.) You should have read the terms of service (Do not pay attention to all the times we changed the terms of service without consulting you, made your devices unusable if you try to repair them yourself or use third party software/parts.^(x)), then you would know how your information is being gathered and sold, and you could make an informed decision to participate in civilization or not. Look at how much the government has grown, it is good that we have some industrialists to check and challenge those elected and selected bureaucrats. You want workers to have more control, that is fine, capitalism allows that, go start your own company or co-op and just be better than the gigantic machine designed to maximize profit at the expense of the very goal you have selected. If we do not grow, somebody else will, if we do not win the AI race, somebody else will. Worry not about the environment, look at this picture of how nicely we cleaned up after strip mining the hills and clear cutting the forests and pumping out every last drop of profitable liquid or gas or solid we could find.

X: The most recent example at the time of writing is Microsoft allegedly revoking a 'perpetual' license without telling anyone and pretending the terms always said the thing they changed it to. We only know they changed it because of archival efforts e.g waybackmachine and archive dot org (which just happens to be a part of the internet that oligarchic institutions and firms are trying to get shut down). This was reported on by Louis Rossmann in the YouTube video 'Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.' and in a consumer rights wiki article titled 'Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026)'

Does Nemik’s manifesto remind anyone else of the Lego Movie? Both worlds demand conformity, punish creativity, and control through bureaucracy rather than brute force. The Kragle and the Empire are the same idea — freeze everything, follow instructions, crush resistance before it starts.