Because the political left got enamoured with corporate cash and forgot that they're ostensibly a labour party. The spent the post-Soviet era indulging on third-way neoliberalism.
Heck, several of them are more actively hostile to actual leftist economics. Labour in the UK fought its own voters and threw elections over Corbyn, the Democratic Party in the US hates the Sanders wing more than it hates Republicans and the Canadian NDP voted for a fundraiser instead of actual lefties.
And in doing all this, they ceded working class politics to protofacists.
The populist right is quite happy to talk about "kitchen-table" issues.
The problem is that they usually don't offer real solutions, preferring to says stuff like "immigrants are going to steal your kitchen table, and only I can stop them! Vote for me! Ein Reich Ein volk Ein gott!"
They might truly only care about corporations, but they lie very well.
It's really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.
That's why the Right is eating everyone's lunch: they're promising they'll make things better. They're lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they're speaking to people's insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.
These people really need to read up on Fritz Thyssen, Jack Ma or any one of the many Russian oligarchs who've been defenestrated, ventilated or irradiated under Putin.
A small amount of taxes in a functioning democracy when you're already a billionaire is a lot cheaper than a hole in your chest under a thin-skinned fascist autocrat.
None of these folks think they'll be a line in Niemoller's poem. They're horribly wrong.
Apparently our fiscally responsible conservative leaders are a-ok with paying private nursing agencies and clinics more than they would if they just staffed public facilities adequately.
I'm not sure why, but I'm always told that conservatives are "good with money" and "fiscally responsible", which Ive learned means "good with transferring public money into private coffers".
The other point from that thread is that the whole idea of having to price shop when you need care seems sadistic and inhumane to anyone from any other civilized country.
Even if pricing was transparent, it's still the wrong way to manage it. Healthcare should be a utility, paid for by taxes, like it is anywhere else in the world that isn't a capitalist dystopia like the US is.
It's happening with vets, it's happening with restaurants, with contractors, utilities, with anything and everything. Anything that can be bought, will be bought, and it will be squeezed relentlessly.
The rich will not be happy until they've wrung every cent of value out of us, and even then they won't stop. They can't stop. They don't even understand how they could stop any more than a tumour might understand why it shouldn't grow uncontrollably/.
A handful of years ago, I read an article which concluded that unrestrained capitalism will inevitably result in an entire industry sector being controlled by roughly three companies, working as a collusive oligopoly.
This group sees election fraud everywhere because they know—they know—they would do it if they had the opportunity, so they can’t see why everyone else wouldn’t.
There's one notice, and it's in the System Settings app. And it's a little red dot beside the iCloud section. That's not really the same league as what Microsoft is doing, or Even Google's nag to use Chrome across all their Web properties.
You're right about the first-party apps that you can't remove, but it's also not the same as, eg, Edge where those apps are used constantly and your preferences are reset on every update.
On my Mac I set my browser to Firefox in 2018. It's never reverted to Safari, not once, where Windows really wants me to use Edge and goes so far as to not just reset it periodically, but also direct start menu searches and in-app web links to an ms-edge: url instead of using the http handler.
More like seventy five cents, given Google's profit margins.