https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/lina-khan-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-trust-busting/

Onward and upward - #Mamdani #LinaKhan

Down with the #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #monopolists

#justice #humanrights #democracy

I switched to Bell Internet two months ago. Today, I got a notification that my monthly fee is going up by $4. WTF???

#monopolists

While big-upping this channel, another great one about the inherent dangers of monopolies/semi-monopolies & planned obsolescence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE

Some might see this as political, & it partly is, but it's a crucial tech issue at its core.

Also, this is definitely a @pluralistic topic. Cory Doctorow's written about this a *lot* in an essential way for clear understanding of the deep issues.

#RightToRepair #PlannedObsolescence #Veritasium #IndustryCartels #monopolies #monopolists

It was reporters and editors for the hundreds of independent newspapers during the First Gilded Age (1880-1900) era that led the crusades against #Rockefeller and his fellow #monopolists.

Investigative journalism was all the rage then, and it fed public demand for a return to #competition and the de-throning of that age’s #oligarchs.

The vast majority of workers were struggling and they worked for a very small 10 percent of the population who controlled most of the nation’s wealth (a situation we’re at again).

The result was constant strife, #strikes, and the murder of labor leaders;
entire towns were in arms (and sometimes ablaze) with #labor conflict.

The “problem of labor”was the number one issue of the day.
As President Grover Cleveland
— the only Democrat elected during that period
— proclaimed in his 1887 State of the Union address:

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies,
🆘 while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel.
⚠️Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.”

... But back to Jeff #Bezos and his 2013 purchase of The #Washington #Post.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/democracy-dies-in-their-wallets-when-ec9

FINALLY some big media attention over the mystery illness that struck my province - only to be swept under the rug via political interference, even ruining the career of the only doctor those 50+ patients had.

What was found most likely to be responsible was the rampant usage of defoliants, specifically #glyphosate by none other than JD #irving - brother to #irvingOil.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025816/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html

#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople

#LANDBACK #LANDBACK #LANDBACK

By @RichardJMurphy:

'#KamalaHarris could say, “I am going to defeat the #monopolists who are #gouging profits out of the markets & suppressing #wages in the #US economy.”

She would break #politics in the US free from the power of corporate influence, which is very heavily related to the power of the monopoly-owning #billionaires.

She could require that these companies like #Google operate fairly & appropriately in all markets, including the #UK, the #EU, & way beyond'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/08/07/google-is-a-monopolist-what-next/