I disagree with your premise.
Whatsapp wasn't always owned by FB/Meta. It had a huge user base then got bought out.
Alternatives like Signal are popular, but it's hard to overcome inertia. Give them time.
I would rather say "Give time to decentralisation". It slowly became a standard. If more people abandon abusive software.
Another way of thinking of it is that the value that Meta/Mastercard/Virgin/other companies that fit that description provide is so substantial that they have become intertwined with society.
The reality is likely somewhere in the middle IMO
how's that working out?
asking for a friend who thinks that for-profit healthcare was a step in the wrong direction.
> for-profit healthcare was a step in the wrong direction.
Using the words "for-profit healthcare" is a distraction from the topic.
GP's have been private since the beginning of the NHS, they're the definition of for-profit healthcare.
On the flip side, Virgin operates many of the major healthcare provdiers as an NHS service provider. I'm not saying that they're incredible, but they're doing it.
The option isn't "public", it's public and sustained funding and investment. Given the govenment of the last decade in the UK, I'm not convinced the situation would be any better if the NHS was more public than it is.
Oligopoly.