al_hag

I believe the OP is arguing that for a consumer capable of bending nature to its will via the mechanism you describe (and especially for those with deprivation in the rear view mirror), collecting winnings at the bottom of the race to timely delivery of state of the art goods and services is missing the forest for the trees,

"Cyclopes has a single head and a single pale, unblinking eye set into its forehead, way to the right of centre, which casts its jaundiced gaze on ordinary humans and sees only what miners see in a mineral-rich forest, or what dam builders see in mighty, flowing rivers."

Moreover, by zooming out from capitalism's competitive price coordinating role, it is highlighted that free enterprise is not a natural outcome of the concentration of wealth and power in emergency shaped aspirations:

"we’ll market ourselves as the cutting edge of human enlightenment, and the manager and disburser of human knowledge sans frontières. But in truth, we’ll be map-shaped. We’ll fuse ourselves to our nation, its economy, its intelligence grid and its security apparatus until you won’t be able to tell us apart from yourself"

Spent an afternoon with a long-time retired self-made tech millionaire, and the struggle is real -- not that their life was characterized by toil necessarily, but the absence of demand on their increasingly limited capabilities is a delicate pain point. I suspect that as long as physical health and vitality late in life are not post-scarce, broader post-scarcity will fail to emerge. Instead, the cost of wellness and bodily preservation will drive ongoing exclusionary hoarding to undermine abundant wellbeing, as has always been the case absent mechanisms to enforce redistribution and a certain level of humility.

Tailscale is one option

I must be naive. I was under the impression Google wants this data to learn from a universally hated company's worst processes and practices, i.e. to teach their AI what not to do. It seems people are worried about their pii or that Google is curating a blacklist of customers?

Legality is certainly not just to do with breaking rules; this is more true the further up in the hierarchy you are.

Is this something that structured propmpts a la DSPy are designed to address?

That seems worth publishing.

Or the average human mind is fully equipped as is — seems like that has been proven over the millennia

What does it mean to say you get lower labor cost and government subsidy issues? Are you saying the tariffs are disproportionate to the impact of the subsidies? Temporary price distortions eliminate competition, not encourage it.