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Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.

Who would take their place?

Rational people

Where on Earth would we find those?

Ideally? Something like worker cooperatives or similar where profit and decision-making is more democratically spread through businesses.

Realistically? Probably capitalists by another name

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