If only we had some sort of structure in our society that could solve the problem but wan't profit-driven. Maybe something that could oversee these corporations. We could call it "government" or something.

Pretty sure the US has one of those, doesn't seem to be working. In fact, it often acts against that (preventing sharing of encryption algorithms, trying to force inclusion of backdoors..).

If only Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau et al. were around today..

Maybe you can try Bernard Stiegler. His english wikipedia page is a little poor in information, so I put a link about his last book (not yet translated).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Stiegler

http://www.samkinsley.com/2016/06/28/how-to-survive-disrupti...

bookmarked this interview link for later. Thanks!

Not sure why you're getting down-voted - if the market is set up to incentivize a certain behavior, then someone will do it eventually. People can get mad all they want, but they should be furious that the government has laws in place to incentivize that type of behavior (or at least allow it to happen.)

Well, there are a few possible solutions, and they don't all involve corporate incentives:

1. Government regulation

2. Technical solutions (alternatives to communication that have end-to-end encryption, for example)

3. Eschew corporations entirely when it comes to our data and communications (i.e. open source and personal hardware solutions)

Personally, I think some combination of 2 and 3 is my ideal endgame, but we aren't there technically yet. 1 isn't really a great option either, because government is so controlled by corporate interests, and corporations will never vote to regulate themselves. But we can at least make some short term partial solutions with option 1 until technology enables 2 and 3.

However, none of these options will happen while people hold onto the naive idealism that the free market will solve all our problems.