I switched to Bell Internet two months ago. Today, I got a notification that my monthly fee is going up by $4. WTF???
Not really, no. Of course, just replace "one company" with "the government", and your first two claims are the explicit goals of the #socialist.
Like I've said before, #socialists are the ultimate #monopolists; there is no greater #monopoly than the government owning all the means of production; AKA, #socialism.
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.
#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople
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/
I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...
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