Come on, I’m sure you understand that just because they provide a real service does not mean we can’t be critical of rent-extracting bullshit, and the failure of other attempts does not simply happen in a vacuum of perfect meritocracy but instead in the smothering shadow of a pre-existing monopoly.

I was doubtful of people complaining about g*mer communists becoming capitalist apologists when it’s their preferred monopolistic extraction operation, but people really do forget everything they know better than sometimes.