If AT&T figured they could make more money from crypto than from telecom they'd probably turn off all their telecom services and rebrand appropriately. They don't give a damn about their customers' safety, security, or anything beyond how much money they can be squeezed for. For all the faults of the old Bell System, they WERE devoted to public service. Now AT&T is just busloads of evil clowns.
@lauren well... right.
I have always though it foolish to rely on corporations for public service or look to them for moral leadership.
That a corporation is amoral is a feature, as the alternative opens us up to being caught behind someone else's sense of morality that can go REAL BAD for us.
If we would rather pay AT&T for crypto services than for telecom--if crypto was more valuable to us than phones--then goodness they SHOULD switch over, to better provide what we collectively want.
Safety, security, etc, is the role of government, not corporations.
@volkris Except that most of that has been outsourced in the U.S. to corporations, with the expected horrible results. Meanwhile, the Right wants to tear down government, and the Left wants to tear down corporations.
@lauren ::shrug:: it is governments' roles to provide public service as best the leaders that we empower see to do that.
If they seek to provide public service by outsourcing to corporations, then that's still a government decision. If it's bad government policy, then for goodness sake let's stop reelecting the same clowns making those decisions.
But we need to emphasize that it is their decision, because that way we can hold them accountable and maybe stop reelecting them.
That government looks to corporations to provide services doesn't mean it's not government looking and deciding and executing government policy.
