Where Are the Adults?

It has to be said out loud.

Much of Big Tech—and the financial system that props it up—rarely creates anything of intrinsic value. Just:
✨ The illusion of innovation
📊 Relentless data harvesting
🧭 Faster, shinier ways to sell us more ads for things we don’t need
💰 Hype cycles that inflate stock prices without building anything real

And now? I think that’s exactly why they’re hiding behind the authoritarian regime.

They know what’s coming. When climate collapse hits, Facebook won’t bring you water. Google won’t feed your kids. And Amazon certainly won’t rebuild community.

No, while we were glued to their platforms, they were building underground bunkers, buying up all the land and water rights, financializing nature to be sold as cryptobacked securities.

Yep, you heard it right. They are going to let the lungs of our planet, the Amazon, be traded on the stock exchange.

They were never about innovation or building things for the good of humanity.

While I was skeptical, I never imagined the world would let them run so wild - so unregulated, so unaccountable - that they’d become key players in an authoritarian coup.

It’s like we left the keys to society in the hands of drunken teenagers, and now the bus is flying off a cliff.

Where were the adults? Where were the women in leadership?

We are here because of decades of neglect. Of apathy. Of unchecked greed.

And none of this was possible without the systematic violation of our privacy and autonomy - our data sold off by tech companies without consent, without shame, without consequence.

No wonder the tech moguls, the Theils, Musks, Zuckerbergs don’t respect us. They turned us into products. And we sat there, swiping and scrolling while they took everything.

When AI came out and started stealing everyone’s intellectual property, what did we do? Nothing.

Why? Because we’re still pretending these men -Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai, Bezos -are visionaries.

They’re not. They’re not better. They’re not even grown-ups.

They’re boys who never learned to share. Who built empires off of exploitation.
They were rewarded not for wisdom, but for domination.

And now we’re all living with the consequences.

Business models that function like toxic parasites, draining life from the very society that enables them should not be revered.

• Apple, if it starts paying it's taxes, OK. Fine. They've been OK with security.
  
• But Meta? Break it up, regulate the heck out of it. Never let it sell drugs to children again. Period.
• Google? Useful - but it need 100% transparency and to offer paid subscriptions that opt out of tracking.
• Amazon must pay a living wage and stop pushing back against labor unions.
• X will self implode on its own.

We have to demand things. No one will do it for us. This is the bare minimum.


Please, join the Digital Exodus. Take back our Democracy. Before it's too late.

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