I was thinking about this after listening to Marc Andreassen blather on about how he doesn’t trust government as a repository of trusted keys and other functions. He advocates for private companies to perform critical functions. Standard libertarian stuff in many respects.
The problem of course is that corporations lack accountability. They can shift terms and conditions or corporate purpose and there is little meaningful recourse except to stop using them. I can think of small examples that don’t widely resonate (Mountain Equipment Co-op I’m thinking of you 🤬) but are there big examples that I’m missing?
And ever since then it has enshitified. Their Merino used to be affordable and 100% Merino. Then it went to Merino/Nylon blend, which is passable, at least nylon adds strength. And now it’s like 60~70% polyester and more expensive then it used to be. It’s literally the same as Uniqlo “Merino”