> Microsoft is a monopolist that makes some of the most hated products on earth
Really? That is quite a claim. You are talking about one of the worlds most successful software companies. What factbased research or large scale survey do you base that on?
I’ll cop to not having facts to back up the perception of its software, but its status as an illegal monopoly is cemented by its successful prosecution by the DOJ.
But Facebook is extremely successful. Some crypto companies are very successful. I don’t hold any of these up as exemplars of the progress of humanity.
EDIT: My response to the GP, whose claim was that the only reason for the haters is that in each case they wanted the business to fail because they weren’t part of it, should been, no, actually there were at the time other and valid reasons detractors of those companies thought the way they did, and the same is true this time.
Facebook has been shown to derange young minds and has been a nonstop firehose of disinformation into global public discourse.
Crypto moved an insane amount of wealth from the poor to the rich through and uncountable number of scams and empty promises.
These? These are what you call progress? Yes, the created wealth for a few individuals, but progress? No, my friend.