That's capitalism. A few winners determine what computers you can use. The
workings of mechanical computation from start to halt is black magic known
not even to the monopolist who decides what parts your computer is made from,
but does not know from what grains of sand and ceramic those parts will be
composed and arranged, and can not verify even a bourgeois "libre" chip is
what is claims to be.
The private property of the few winners requires for its privileges
the servicing of authority able to guarantee the strangle-hold of property in
spite of what you may will.
Pay no heed to those who will whine for "managed capitalism",
they are not revolutionary, for they demand the preservation of a system that
has out-lived its usefulness.
Pay no heed to those who will only gasp in horror that terrible things can
happen to them. Capitalism is horror without end.
After 100 years, if it is not clear to you what must be done... get out of
the way. Stop making it seem that the tiny minority of capitalists possess
god-like power, instead of showing that the source of that power is in the
ownership of production under the bourgeois class, a minority that thrives on
labor, and employs labor only when it is profitable. A class that uses its
ownership to decide who is a celebrity. A rotten system that imposes its
conditions of appropriation for profit. A system where no lives matter. A
system of endless uncertainty and fear.
Capitalism has collapsed. The bourg class are afraid of you, but also in
loathing of your absence of directive. Your inability to cast the first
stone, to pull the trigger, to get blood on your hands for the sake of your
emancipation, the salvation of your planet, and the your responsibility to
future generations.
If you can only whine, then throw away your computer. Take your pills, and
stay out of our way.
"Nice capitalism" is not an option.
The choice facing humankind is that of either socialism or barbarism.
