It was inevitable. We kept telling people to not give away their data like that, that centralizing that much power in the GAFAS is dangerous, that somebody will abuse it.

Few people listened, even fewer without labelling us as paranoid. Almost nobody cared.

The problem is not that there are bad actors. Any sufficiently big and complex social system will have them. We must live with them, it's part of reality, like gravity.

The problem is that the rest of the actors are not thinking a second about their life or actions. They don't build a society. They cruise through existence.

This will always lead to pain.