Everyone Plays #Monopoly Wrong and It Ruins the Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8dHyhdpGps

Everyone Plays Monopoly Wrong and It Ruins the Game

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This is such an excellent article. Most people don’t realize that for many items we have an illusion of choice, but in reality are dealing with #monopoly power. Then even if they do realize they don’t see why it’s bad for them.

This article clearly lays out how monopolies get away with making your life worse and more expensive.

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose

Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose

In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.

Worse on Purpose

@RowinSpeez

The most important job, if you're a surgeon, and your patient has a MASSIVE brain aneurism, is to shrink and excise the life ending blood balloon, before it kills the patient.

If you give the surgeon a hundred coins, she could buy some disposable cameras, tell everyone else about the dangers of aneurisms, but it would waste the surgeons time, and kill the patient.

#nihillionaire #worldCoup #accumlation #trustBuster #monopoly #coercion #tyranny #billionairism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicnewsfeed/116404484600853846

Pakistan is a useless tool eager in serving US interests, buying them time to cover weapon shortages and supplies to strike again.

When things get worse #Iran will have nothing else to play with than strike the oil export terminal across the gulf and this is precisely what the US wanted anyway, to trigger an endless war between the two sides of the gulf so it can maintain an OIL #monopoly around the globe

#Venezuela #Russia #China #Nigeria #Somalia #Chad

3つの「AI精神症」――投資家のAI妄想、経営者のAI妄想、そしてAI批判者のAI妄想

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/ai/5567

> Unfortunately, Apple has reimposed its mandate forcing all creators on Patreon to use subscription billing by November 1, 2026. Late last year, Apple blocked our app update and made it clear that in order to remain in the App Store, we have to comply with their billing requirement."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/switching-to-and-151102644

This isn't mine, I just found this interesting that an app store can have so much control.

#AppleAppStore #monopoly

Enfin quelqu'un s'adresse au problème de la #surveillance_numérique des #grandes_entreprises et comment ils exploitent nos données personnelles contre nous pour nos tricher. Bravo @avilewis pour cette initiative!
#avilewis #ndp #npd #AI #IA #PredatoryPricing #DynamicPricing #digital_surveilance #big_tech #monopoly
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXFfNIGkpqq/?igsh=MWFvdzhkZGoyMGpqbQ==
Avi Lewis on Instagram: "Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already struggling with the untenable cost of living. Now, retailers are teaming up with Big Tech to squeeze people even more. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks. #cdnpoli"

4,233 likes, 141 comments - avi.lewis on April 13, 2026: "Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already struggling with the untenable cost of living. Now, retailers are teaming up with Big Tech to squeeze people even more. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks. #cdnpoli".

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#nokings #bigtech #monopoly #eu #satire #zukunft #medien #palantir #journalismus #demokratie #kapitalismus #polizei #staat #politik #überwachung #it #ccc #gesellschaft #3sat #kultur #punk #zdf #platform #socialmedia #wissenschaft

In the move towards #SovereignTech what is going to be done over the monopoly control which Microsoft and Google have over email?

People who don't use their email services [points to self] are finding their emails increasingly blocked as spam, locking people into their services.

#Email is #CriticalInfrastructure which rests in the hands of two US corporations. It is also anti-competitive and a mass privacy risk for individuals and business.

#NationalSecurity #Monopoly
... #ICO 🤡