2035: Apple takes 30% of my Patreon, Google matched it through their "Competitive Parity Agreement," and the EU fined them both €2 billion which they paid in 45 minutes of revenue then raised fees to 32% to cover legal costs.

The real innovation was convincing us this was inevitable.

You naively assumed that they would actualy disbourse 2 G€ in payments for those fines.

Reality disagrees: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/12/13/data-regulato...