not to even mention how corrupt, overly-expensive and unentertaining 'professional' sports actually is

modern gladiators in moderm colosseums creating spectacles to keep the masses entertained

typical bullshit from a neo-con

no, government is not by definition fascist

governments are simply people self-organizing as are businessess

there must be some sort of rules

the problem is people like you let unethical people corrupt both government and business

that's called classism

governments to be ethical and effective must be comprised of all people, by the people and for all people, not just the privileged who use thier privilege to extend thier privilige at everyone else's expense

greed is evil

not only overcharge us but monopolize markets, spam us with unethical ads, force us to buy bundles of crap, no quality content, no customer service

good riddence, indeed, i can't wait for corporate hollywood to sink under the weight of its own greed and incomptence too

it's a reality already https://www.cars.com/articles/...

nothing is as simple as just saying it, but economics will ultimately decide

the reality is if not for the entrenched classism, the corruption and the incomptence that goes with it, we'd have much better trucks, much better logistics and a much better, sustainable and non polluting economy and we'd have ethical governace and honourable enterprise

instead what we get is stupidity and irresponsibility from those in power, sure progress might happen but it can't avoid the inevitable

As opposed to what? Wreck The Planet? It sure doesn't take much to see which side of the conspiracy you're on, does it?

The reality is this is what enterprise is, companies build things, markets test them, and no, it's not a free market and yes, governments will impose standards, that's what government is, or what 'our' government was supposed to be for, isn't it?

The problem isn't about save the planet, the problem is ethics, as it always is, is it ethical to act irresponsibly and cook our own planet? OIviously not and it's not intelligent either, is it?

It sure would not take much to energize an induction system on some heavily travelled routes or develop charging at truck stops. Eventually, the tech will be good enough to operate mostly autonomously so charging stations will just be located as needed, won't they?

Corruption doesn't work that way, the entitled owners simply hire more syphocants and blame the underlings for any problems. Of course, they've draining away all the real capital and profits, someday they'll even bankrupt the shell so as to avoid any responibility for thier actions.

More concerning is these transnational corporations developing thier own crypto

Walmart is exploring the possibility of introducing a “virtual currency for use by members of an online communityin the field of NFTs”
The retail giant is also looking at providing a means for customers to interact with the metaverse and providing financial services involving crypto
  ~ https://blockworks.com/news/wa...

People have been using algorithms to manage inventory and pricing for over a century, starting with simple formulas like Economic Order Quantity that tried to balance stock levels and costs. By the mid-1900s, computers brought operations research into the mix, letting businesses forecast demand and optimize inventory more systematically. Then came barcodes and databases in the 80s and 90s, giving retailers near real-time visibility. Fast forward to the 2000s, and companies like Amazon pushed things further with dynamic pricing systems that constantly adjust based on demand, competition, and user behavior. Same basic goal as always, just massively more data and speed.

What Walmart is doing with AI pricing isn’t a clean break from that history, but it is a step change in how aggressive and autonomous it’s become. Earlier systems followed rules; today’s AI rewrites them on the fly, reacting in real time and feeding back into itself. Prices shift, demand shifts, the model updates, and the cycle keeps going. At Walmart scale, that doesn’t just optimize shelves, it can start nudging the whole market. So while it’s still “just algorithms,” the difference now is less about the idea and more about the speed, scope, and how little human hands are actually on the wheel.

Sadly, we cannot stop them any longer, they have become to powerful. Corporations may be legal fiction however classism and corruption are not. Given that the upper class owns the governments and the courts, there is no effective way to constrain transnational corporations. Indeed, such legal machinations were designed to allow the upper class to act with impunity. This is how the entitled turned our democracies into thier global plutocracy.

This always ends the same way, an internal ethical rot that destroys civilizations. The ride up was fun, the ride down won't be. Welcome to the age of consequnces.

sure, you're free to quit one slave job and maybe find another slave job or maybe not, that's why unemployment is kept high and socail programs are so underfunded

when employment is slavery and does not pay enough to accumulate capital then that's not employment, it's expoitation

there's no real freedom when everyone and our governments are heavily indebted to upper class interests

I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. ~ Jefferson

The public debt is a public curse, and in a republic it is a serious one. ~ Madison

this isn't just about greed, this is also about hoarding and class exploitation

when those in power have corrupted our rule of law so they can satisfy an insataible greed, then there is no limit to how low these people will go or how much damage they can do

they've already hoarded all the capital and all the power, so now we'll see how quickly an immoral and irresposible group of people can wreck what we have built

greed is and will be once again our downfall

You are pushing in the right direction but the situation is more complex than simply whether people have backbone or free will

Individual agency matters but the conditions in which that agency operates are not equal and class plays a central role. Access to time education and media literacy is uneven and that shapes how people engage with the internet. Someone under financial stress or working long hours does not process information the same way as someone with stability and time and that is not about intelligence but about available resources and one's emotional, mental and physical state. Poor people simply do not have fair or reasonable access to the resources they desperately need.

At the same time the internet is not neutral. Platforms are designed to capture attention through emotion speed and convenience rather than depth and accuracy and those pressures do not land evenly They tend to affect people with fewer resources more strongly because fast easy content is what fits constrained situations

So it is not that people are helpless but influence is being applied at scale and resisting it requires effort awareness and time all of which are shaped by class conditions Ignoring that reduces everything to personal weakness while denying agency entirely goes too far in the other direction

The more accurate view is that people do have free will but class conditions shape how easy it is to actually use it. Sure slaves have free will, to obey or resist. Sure looks like some people have choosen to accept economic bondage.

Those who choose security over freedom end up with neither.

'Our' Internet was destroyed by the greed of the upper class, they bought it and now they use the Internet and all the top level sites to steal from us, cheat us, lie to us and manipluate us.

Welcome to economic slavery, yes boss, no boss, right away boss .

i'm slow, it takes me an hour ... maybe try reading carefully before trolling?