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Who gets to decide? How about all of us voters, taxpayers, and citizens, collectively, in a democratic fashion?

I'd be fine having a discussion about what's "too massive" for a company and trying to figure out how to balance the interests of society and any given company (and its constituent individuals). But I'd like to start from a position of, what do we want society to look like? rather than a position of, how do we preserve the status quo?

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You do get to decide. You either reward them by being a consumer of their products/services or you don't.

Sorry, looks like you got outvoted.

Now you want to sit on some panel of judgement to overrule the public.

I love it when people say stuff like this. Society has spoken. You simply don't like their decision so your answer to is to create some super-powerful organization that can veto the public and instill its own version of what society should look like.

What? Those companies exist because society has granted them permission. That "super-powerful organization" is the government. Always has been, always will be.

Fortunately, now, for the most part, in the west, we all get a say in that super-powerful organization.

It, and everything it spawns, like mega-corporations, exists to serve us, not the other way around.

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