Easy. We don't "allow" things to happen. Things happen. Nobody went around the room and asked everyone if they could give money to facebook.

Outcome 1 is not a bad thing, it's incredibly good.

Uber wants to replace their drivers with self-driving cars. They've always been very open about this.

Which are by definition, the areas that matter to most people.

The existence of a densely populated area doesn't imply that most people live there. The majority of a population can be sparsely distributed just fine.

In Canada it only became true ~80 years ago that most lived in urban areas according to statscan. In the territories it's only reached parity in the last 10 years.

Hence, regulation, so the minority isn't ruled by the tyranny of the majority.

That's how patent licensing works (albeit a comically overaggressive caricature). Do you fundamentally oppose the concept of patents or do you think Microsoft is doing something else wrong by asking to be paid license fees by competitors using their patents?

I don't hold either of those views. I was just pointing out that the parent comment by sz4kerto seems to not be relevant to the question asked by NotOscarWilde.

Most of us don't see any reason to continue doing interesting things beyond making ourselves look appealing during courtship.

Really?

Twitter and Linkedin are huge competitors.

Twitter maybe, but LinkedIn really isn't, unless you define the market to be "connecting anybody with anybody else on the Internet".

The market is selling ads. I thought that was pretty plain.

You should look into LinkedIn's revenue sources. Ads are actually a smaller part of the pie.

Windows was free? You were paying for your OS which was distributed by the company you were paying for it from.That is their source or revenue. The Google's play services is Google's revenue stream. Hope that made sense. In my head it does. LOL

Conversely, you old people grew up in a disconnected, technologically backwards society and you've learned your whole lives that electronic communication is something to be feared.

The simpsons has a famous quote for people like you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdozkeNqNQk

Sorry, you missed the topic here - it is about surveillance and control and abuse of powers. Nice try to put it "fear of technology" - too obvious and simplistic.

Because the people who do it don't think of it as giving up privacy and personal space. If your partner moved in with you, would you call that "giving up half your house"?