Even though it's been decades I still occasionally get irrationally irritated at having to use American spelling when coding XD
It pains me!
I said I was kind of waiting for that to happen and then we talked about how to keep things in early stage capitalism and agreed that it was probably not possible.
Maybe it is. If everything was decentralized and had the ability to be opted out of, if any single entity got too controlling, people would just opt out, forking the use case to another who promises to do things more fairly. This is what happened with the move from steem to hive :)
We did also discuss how you could just switch to another economic (or anything really) model despite the desperate efforts (including legal shenanigans) that the old thing might put in place to try to maintain the status quo XD