Pokémon Go is a harbinger of the monopoly capitalism proclaimed by monster Peter Thiel, which companies such as Google try to practice.

The article exaggerates when it claims that images on a phone screen and reality will be indistinguishable. Most people will relearn how to distinguish, because various forms of crime and misadventure will teach them.

Meanwhile, some of us know better than to play such a game. I would never even consider running the Pokémon Go game, since it is proprietary software which means it tramples the freedom of whoever uses it. I would never even consider running the proprietary operating systems that it runs on, such as iOS and Android.

And I would never even consider tolerating the surveillance which that game does, or the surveillance done by any portable phone.

If those injustices were fixed, I'd have no reason of principle to refuse to the game. But I'd still have better things to do with my time. Don't you? Isn't there some worthy cause you would like to work for, if only you had time? Well, here's how to get the time: do it instead of some other hobby.