They’re certainly colluding to screw workers and consumers as much as possible. It benefits them to work together against the working class.

Today I learned that IBM is still a major thing

It’s corporate-speak that means nothing. The same company “focused on it’s core business” today will buy something unrelated sometime later and say it’s “poised for growth in a growing market”.

At least Bojack got paid

I do

Eh, the wife isn’t starving either. Clearly the kids aren’t trying hard enough

This! I’m rebuilding my collection right now so its great to just copy whole chunks of other people’s libraries.

It’s more important to me to consider the ethics or morality of the situation rather than the legality. Laws, especially in the US, are built to protect those in power, aka those with money. In all of those situations, you’d be considered a thief. But the idea that education is a commodity is immoral in the first place. So I have no qualms about the classroom and workshop. The cinema either.

That’s rough!

Nah I don’t think so. What people do in a simulation can approximate what they’d do in real life with no consequences but in real life there are always consequences. And most people need to see themselves as the hero in their own story so they won’t do things that they perceive as evil.

It seems to me that most individual people think they are right in whatever they’re doing. Including voting for Trump, being hateful, etc.

There are too many downsides that are too severe and won’t change unless we change the system. I suggest you research the successes of communism. The USSR accomplished a lot and there are other examples like Cuba