I wouldn’t say its unpopular, but I do agree its a bit ignorant but not in the probably negative way you mean.

I think its your acceptance that its fundamental that “Business MUST profit and we MUST suffer to allow them to profit”

You’re making a huge leap that we need to suffer through all of the internet getting worse just because a corporation wants to profit. Fuck Google, Fuck Reddit, fuck all businesses that fail. Who cares? We owe them nothing.

Getting into downtown on foot is going to be huge. Not to mention house prices getting even higher in Nanaimo