Big Tech is the ultimate example of how capitalism presents the greatest possible distance between what is promised and what results

Facebook's promise: Everyone on Earth will be brought together by sharing their lives

Facebook's reality: Your grandparents are Nazis now

Google's promise: A rainbow of useful applications across platforms, free for everyone

Google's reality: A constant, monetized, non-state security apparatus answerable to no one

Twitter's promise: The perfect medium for fun, fleeting thoughts from celebrities and normal people alike

Twitter's reality: Expose yourself to a constant stream of everyone's worst opinions

eBay's promise: A global marketplace for the odd, the cast-off, the loved, and the rare

eBay's reality: New opportunities for fraud, counterfeiting, and the creation of new collector markets that make all that quirky shit unaffordable

Uber's promise: Make money in your spare time with your own car at times it's otherwise idle

Uber's reality: Completely destroy the entire concept of worker protections while degrading the environment even further

Amazon's promise: Buy anything, anytime, from anywhere, for cheap

Amazon's reality: Annihilate local retail and manufacturing even more effectively than Wal-Mart; create dozens of unaccountable mega-plutocrats

Netflix's promise: any movie or TV show you want to see, any time

Netflix's reality: perpetual licensing wars mean you actually pay more to see less than you did before

YouTube's promise: A true democratization of visual content; videos for people like you, made by people like you, for free

YouTube's reality: Your grandkids are Nazis now

Online journalism's promise: More news from everywhere, a news cycle that never sleeps

Online journalism's reality: Fights over every ad penny, real news is behind a paywall, local journalism ceases to exist, the rest is a sludgy mix of puff pieces and toxic opinion writing

Anyway you get the idea, try some of your own

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Grubhub's promise: All your favorite local restaurants, but now they deliver

Grubhub's reality: All your favorite national chain restaurants, plus we help bankrupt all your local favorites with insanely high fees

Spotify's promise: the Netflix of music -- anything you want to hear, anytime

Spotify's reality: Like filesharing, but with ruthless enforcement of copyright law, the artist still doesn't make any money, and you don't get to keep the files

Wikipedia's promise: literally all the world's knowledge, instantly at your fingertips

Wikipedia's reality: literally all the world's knowledge about anime, instantly at your fingertips

GoFundMe's promise: Find your audience, sell your product, and achieve your dreams without the help of marketers or other corporate interlocutors

GoFundMe's reality: Replacement health insurance

GoPuff's promise: Fast, easy delivery of snacks for lethargic stoners

GoPuff's reality: Okay GoPuff is actually pretty good