companies like google and youtube etc are like if a guy went around putting little bowls of soup out everywhere. And it's pretty good soup. But it's so very everywhere that there's not a lot of room to find any other soup anywhere. Which is kind of okay, because the soup is decent plus it's free.
But someone has to pay for it, and this rich guy says he'll pay for the soup if he gets to attach a business card to each of the bowls. And that's okay, kinda, because it means you don't have to pay for it.
And THAT. That should be how things end up. But they don't stop there.
Soon business card guy gives the soup guy some extra money and starts putting business cards IN the soup. And, like, little pebbles with his name on them.
And then the soup guy takes "don't be evil" off his list of commitments and starts peeing in the soup, and the business card guy pays him some more extra money and puts hidden cameras up to spy on the people eating the piss soup.
but by now there's so much of their soup everywhere that you kind of have to eat it. If you're not eating soup from soup guy, then you're getting dinner from chicken wing guy who is also getting paid to have cameras watch you eat the business cards stuffed into the wings. And pissing on them, probably. And between them and the burger gang, they take up so much of the surface area nobody else can put much food out.
Anyway it's especially frustrating because there is a stage in there where it's working for everybody. Everybody gets what they want at one point in this process, and by all rights it should just. stay. there.
Right when it all really comes together, it works. We get the free soup, which is decent and piss-free with no business cards shoved directly into it. Business card guy gets his business card attached to every bowl, and it boosts his business. And soup guy gets to be known as the one giving out all this free soup while making a decent living taking payment from business card guy.
but it always slides straight into business guy and soup guy becoming wealthy from our money as they both spy on us eating their piss soup

























