Comment by sph
There is a term in biology for things which decide to grow uncontrollably, to the detriment of the surrounding ecosystem.
There is a term in biology for things which decide to grow uncontrollably, to the detriment of the surrounding ecosystem.
The non-biological term would be "publicly-traded corporation". If anything their behavior is worse when there is no controlling founder.
This thread is an exaggeration. Disney could have operated Micky Mouse themed casinos on its premises with probable success, it could also lobby to change regulation that is associated with that.
However companies have balancing factors which are other than maximizing short term profits, such as moral image
maybe these tech companies do not subscribe to your notion of modern day gestapo (an organization that was involved in killing 10+ million people in horrible ways) or a "genocide" that is minuscule in comparison to american bombings in Japan, which were similarly in the context of war and actually targeted civilians
Maybe your use of these hyperboles are just an artifact of speech deficiencies of our social media engineered reality?
It's called life.
All life grows and consumes as much as it can. It's what makes it life. "Control" happens when there's more life contesting the same limited resources, and usually involves starvation, but if the situation persists on evolutionary timescales, then some life adapts to proactively limit growth. Then, if some of that adapted life unadapts itself, we call that "cancer", which I think is what you were going for.
The non-biological term would be "billionaire".