“Something” is the internet. People put stuff on it for free because they anticipate it remaining there. Google in particular profits by making it supposedly easier to find things you want, though increasingly I don’t really believe they are doing that. Facebook is not truly “the internet” so much as a site on it, and their business model is based on making it easier for people to have a sort of “home page”. Those of us who have been on the net a while tend to have a blog or web page of some sort. People not interested in putting that much effort into get a Facebook page. Then the rest of us get one so we can talk to them. It’s not really all that diabolical.

Capitalism is not a definable thing. If what you mean by “Capitalism” is a free market, and people being allowed to trade what they want when they want to, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. If by “Capitalism” you mean a market controlled by capital, which itself is centrally controlled, what you have is something not so very different from socialism, and indeed most economies in the west these days are “mixed” in whatever sense contrasting capitalism with socialism makes any sense at all. Ultimately most everything you say about economics makes no sense.

Magna Carta is about limiting the power of the privileged, and the history of this earth is really nothing but the back and forth between privilege and common life. I frankly don’y see a whole lot of difference between life today and life 2000 years ago. Our current system is almost indistinguishable from fuedalism. Fiefdoms are not corporations. The larger corporations represent more powerful fiefdoms, smaller ones more akin to knights. There are a handful of professionals that operate like free artisans and merchants and the like, and the vast bulk of people work for wages in a way not at all unlike peons of old. If anything, there seems to be growing evidence peasants in medieval times actually had more self determination, seeing as the gap between the well to do and the poor was narrower. Court rolls document peasants being able to rise and fall economically, live outside of town (and hence outside of their lord’s direct monitoring) for a small fee. Travel was far from unheard of.

Technical know how has made the average person’s life much better, but the limit on the number of people allowed into such fields makes demigods of those people, which is just one more reason I despise IP laws. A modern Magna Carta would limit the ability of corporations and governments to dictate who can and cannot compete, and under what circumstances. Research would either be a community driven thing, or it would not happen. Doing research to find out how to save a man’s life only to then use that knowledge to leverage work out of him is just plain, old fashioned, unadulterated greed, and there’s nothing about it to suggest it drives progress.