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This is what neoliberalism does. It privatizes everything, including the individual. Everyone is a product. Everyone has a "brand".
Right liberalism is about individual rights, economic freedom and freedom in general. Left-wing countries will give big tech more power cause they'll have advantages over other companies and groups cause they have the money to pay for unnecessary laws that the left likes and they'll be friends with the government. In countries even more on the left the problem will be the same but added that you won't have any economic freedom and individual rights, small groups and companies will most likely not exist or die in the minute they're created and you won't be able to support them cause you basically doesn't own your own money and the money will he spent on useless taxes that you supported. Your ideas give big tech power, you're not the resistance but the perpetrator. Big techs have grown more and more as the world has become more leftist and you insist in not noticing the base of your mentality is helping big tech.
Right wing countries do this. What do you think South Korea is? "Economic freedom," is freedom commensurate with economic power, which means freedom for people with money, and "personal responsibility" for people without. The opposite of government regulation of business is corporate domination of government. You're conflating these opposites to falsely align organized labor with "big business." The entire right-libertarian political project is a smokescreen for the Kochs and their economic class to baffle morons into thinking the policies they want benefit the little guy.
I really wish to know how people having total control over their lives is some evil capitalism conspiracy.