https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war
It sounds like you are confusing culture with aesthetics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war
It sounds like you are confusing culture with aesthetics.
During a discussion of said company's defiance of a federal judge, such a critique seems pertinent to me!
We have continually observed the most powerful actors in our system abusing it in consistent ways: cornering markets, becoming monopolies, bullying smaller companies, constructing walled gardens, diminishing the concept of consumer ownership, etc.
I think we ought to allow comments like theirs in discussions like this.
> Societal values
Notice it doesn't say economic or material values.
Does the age of monarchy still have impacts on the UK? My imported gin still says "By Order of Her Majesty" on it. "God save the Queen" (or now King) is, intrinsically, part of UK culture.
> values, beliefs, and practices
That includes practices of law keeping, beliefs in how the law is executed, altered and enshrined, etc.
In the US specifically, the founding fathers wrote _at length_ on capitalism, the free market, and how communal economic systems (they were writing prior to Marx) didn't scale. Our society is built on capitalism, through and through.
We can't just pretend words mean what we want them to mean. Language as a means of communion requires more from us.