> Corporations are never truly your friends and should be treated accordingly. For some reason, we once believed that tech companies were different, but in reality, it was always just a more sophisticated facade.
Are those companies you listed counterexamples to this?
Actually I agree wholeheartedly with the above statement.
But I also believe that some companies will be more predatory in their actions depending on what’s their source of revenue, size of company, leadership etc.
I would say Google in 2000 is very different from Google 2025.
Back then Google seemed to me like an ally, maybe not a friend, but definitely we were on the same side.
As soon as they became an ad company instead of a search engine, it slowly went down hill.
Now I treat Google as part of the global elites surveillance machine instead of a trusted ally.
The problem is, how do you make profit online without slipping into predatory action? How do you build an organisation resistant to this?
Are those companies you listed counterexamples to this?