> Last year I was tagged in a photo from a camping trip by a person I met on that trip. That person's brother's girlfriend used to work with a guy I know from a totally different circle of people. He asked me about my camping trip because FB made the connections just based on who is in the picture.
First, most of your ire should be directed at whoever uploaded the photo to Facebook. Second, please notice how far afield you had to go to try and shape this conversation into "Facebook is coercing me": a friend asked you about your camping trip.
Compare that to what happens if you don't do things that the government wants you to do. If I don't go to jury duty, men with guns will come to my home and put me in a cage. If I don't pay 40% of my wages to the government, men with guns will come to my home and put me in a cage. Even though I object to how that money is being spent (such as bombing people in the middle east or developing ever more horrifying weapons of war), I am coerced under threat of violence into funding such atrocities.
But please go on about how terrible it was that your friend asked you about your camping trip.
> You mean like a democracy?
Should a democracy vote on which vehicle we must all drive? Which movies we must all watch? Which jobs we must work? Of course not. Likewise for which businesses each of us patrons. The crowning achievement of our constitution isn't the form of representation (which mostly serves to prevent violent revolution), but the concept of human rights: No matter how much people want to vote for it, the government is forbidden from doing certain things to you.
When corporations effectively control customer choice and eliminate competition, then yes, a democracy should break up the corporation to restore a level playing field. US anti-trust laws that were fairly applied in the past are not being applied today. This is a position independent of whether a wealth tax is applied or not. Big companies have become far too big with mergers and anti-competitive practices - they need to be broken up - for the very health and continuance of precious capitalism.
First, most of your ire should be directed at whoever uploaded the photo to Facebook. Second, please notice how far afield you had to go to try and shape this conversation into "Facebook is coercing me": a friend asked you about your camping trip.
Compare that to what happens if you don't do things that the government wants you to do. If I don't go to jury duty, men with guns will come to my home and put me in a cage. If I don't pay 40% of my wages to the government, men with guns will come to my home and put me in a cage. Even though I object to how that money is being spent (such as bombing people in the middle east or developing ever more horrifying weapons of war), I am coerced under threat of violence into funding such atrocities.
But please go on about how terrible it was that your friend asked you about your camping trip.
> You mean like a democracy?
Should a democracy vote on which vehicle we must all drive? Which movies we must all watch? Which jobs we must work? Of course not. Likewise for which businesses each of us patrons. The crowning achievement of our constitution isn't the form of representation (which mostly serves to prevent violent revolution), but the concept of human rights: No matter how much people want to vote for it, the government is forbidden from doing certain things to you.