Now that you've broken the backs of our corporate overlords, it's time to twist the knife. That is the purpose of these next two executive orders.
The second will be to prohibit corporations from capturing and selling their customers' personal data. "We value your privacy," says every automated system in the nation. Do you? Because it seems to me that what you do is, you coerce your customers into digitally signing a terms of service agreement so you can steal their data and sell it to the highest bidder. Or is the value you mention the gobs of money you get from selling our property? And no, I don't think Terms of Service is legally binding. In order to use the service, you have to agree to it. Then don't use the service, I hear you say. It is currently necessary to do business on the internet. You can't survive the modern world without it. So a company should be allowed to take advantage of us by making us sign this fucking thing?
You don't get to do that anymore. *We* own our own data, and if we wish to sell it, we can. But it should be strongly encouraged to not sell your data. Our corporate overlords have had "permission" to surveil us for a very long time. They should not be allowed to do that. They know everything about you. If you've ever wondered why you're talking about something with a friend, and then you see an advertisement for that thing, wonder no more. They know when payday is so they can change their prices on their app to extract as much money as possible out of you.
"We do this to enhance your customer experience." Fuck right the fuck off. Into the sun. Repeat as necessary.
The third executive order will be to outlaw the concept of "planned obsolescence." This economy exists to benefit actual living, breathing people, not to satisfy the greed of the uber-rich. When you buy a product, you can now expect it to last decades, not just a couple of years. Imagine what it would be like to never have to buy another lightbulb in your life. Or have you never heard of the Centennial Light Bulb?
Our government currently exists as a wealth extraction device for our corporate overlords. We must turn that around so that corporations must once again mewl and grovel for our business. In other words, we're bringing back competition to our economy, which it has sorely lacked these last 30 or so years.
If they're allowed to continue stealing our data and to deliberately make faulty products, then we can expect this to end much like the Soviet Union did. How long will it be before a loaf of bread costs a couple of hundred dollars?
These two EOs will prevent that from happening. And if the corporate overlords get caught violating these things, the punishment must be so incredible that they'd be terrified of even considering it. I think fining them $44B for each infraction would do the trick. Even Elon Musk would pause to think about breaking the law in such an instance. It would cost him, say, a Twitter for example.
More executive orders to come . . .
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