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I said basically.
Wanna bet? I close my eyes, sleep, wake up sometime (hopefully) then check.
Intentional anarcho-communistic commune somewhere in the middle of Denmark. Denmark is fine with it because it's making tourist money. It's like a cool fact, like "did you know there's a place where people avoid using money". Obviously, they go out sometimes. Apart from that, stuff done there that is only "ethical outside of capitalism" isn't ethical for the outside world. If someone does vibecoding there and considers it ethical for some reason but not outside (like the de facto lack of enforcement for intellectual property because it's no longer needed), people outside still can't use the work ethically. From what I've heard, they aren't even really good with computers there, and I am not aware of any attempts to make their own.
Both? Some people don't want data harvesting yet it's done. The CEO gets capital, so do investment companies and maybe some client companies.
EDIT: even if the electricity is sourced "ethically" (no), the compute itself is attributing to climate change.
Ah, so there are alternatives.
If you can sleep as long as Rip van Winkle, you might see it change.
(Obviously the error margins are huge, but I expect capitalism to stop being the majority economic system in the world in about thirty years. Emphasis on the 'about'.)
Okay, so mentally children. Expect nothing significant from them.
I don't think data harvesting per se is going away. Even in an ideal world, the state would need to collect a lot of data about people to efficiently allocate resources (i.e. budget correctly). As for corporations, the CEO getting capital, and so on, those are results of capitalism.