Universal Basic Services is the best route to go. If done correctly, it avoids a shitload of unearned money going to the obscenely rich ghouls. Things like healthcare, housing, education etc. The sort of things we, in fact, achieved for a while after World War 2 was over...

That doesn't sound like teachers in the UK at all. I have relatives, friends and ex-colleagues who are teachers. The vast majority of them are trying to do their best to help the kids within the stupid constraints provided by our incompetent and malicious government.

No one gets into teaching to get rich, or to pursue some weird agenda. It pays too poorly for that. They get into it generally because they're passionate about learning and/or working with kids.

Actually they didn't. People hated cars and the deaths they caused at first. A huge propaganda effort was deployed by car-makers, and they came up with the whole concept of 'jaywalking' to shift blame to the victims. Large money won in the end as usual...

Treat those delivery apps as 'discovery' services instead. I use them to find new places that deliver on the occasion I order in. If it's good, I order direct from them for all future orders. I do the same with 'booking.com' and the like.

That's true right now, perhaps--but people can clearly see a huge downward turn is well within the realms of possibility.

Not really, the post-WWII (in the west) period saw unprecedented improvements in human rights, social safety nets, co-operation, etc.

Since the 1980s, pushed hard by Thatcher & Reagan, rich bellends were empowered more and more and more--and started to fuel divisions between populations to distract from the fact that they were making the world worse in every possible way to satisfy their own greed and insecurities.

We definitely should stop subsidizing their defense.

I agree, I live in Europe--the problem is the USA originally wanted Europe dependent on them militarily and economically, treaties and deals all twisted Europe's arm to achieve this. It's not the USA was doing us a favour, it was all entirely in their own interest.

There are such things as smaller independent ISPs where if something goes wrong you can speak to a human who will likely care. Same goes for landlords. Electricity supply, well depends on the country as to that setup. Some things are unavoidable.

If half the internet was not on AWS, but on 15 - 20 different providers and outage of one would not be a big story.

Corporations should have no rights at all--it's a fucking stupid concept to begin with.

They are not natural, and exist only because a huge legal and regulatory framework exists to permit them to.

I vaguely recall caterpillar (CAT) made one in the earlier days of smartphones, super rugged!

The difference is AI companies are cannibalising Wikipedia to inflate a dangerous bubble and make a handful of twats even richer.

Wikipedia cannibalised Britanicca, but in order to benefit even more people and provide a public good.

there are plenty of very safe countries where police don't carry guns

Who even gives a shit! The biggest danger to UK citizens is from the UK Government not another one on the other side of the planet.

Over 50 million enslaved people lay at the feet of Capitalism.

Just sayin'...

Where do you draw the line?

The answer to this question is always, "somewhere. You draw the line somewhere"

It is the job of a lot of people (legislators, regulators, non-profits, academics, etc.) to come up with the line and they do it for all sorts of things all of the time.