What is a VM?

Does DNS and having a privacy focused browser work?

Any politician who has been “regulatorily captured”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Joseph Stiglitz have made a convincing argument that inequality can entirely be explained by rents. That without rents (coming from monopoly power, companies influencing politics, private ownership of land) we will not see rising inequality. Which suggests that we can prevent excessive inequality with anti trust laws, land value taxes, and heavier protections against political regulatory capture.

Rent-seeking politicians exist in any political system. The problem are in the rules of the game.

Wtf? So Google has basically “bought” the only competitor that isn’t big tech