@Tengrain @Cleopatra @TonyStark But this is also how immigrants pull it off too. Many people are coming from a place where it is easier to start a small business than to get hired by a Lord.
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@niconiconi it's worse than that! say that you fill a 1TB drive every month, and you pay in proportion to how much storage you use. You continually pay for storage from previous months over and over again. 1+2+3+...+N = (N-1)*N/2 is O(N^2). But if you stored it on-premesis, you just keep buying 1 new 1TB drive every month. O(N).
@TonyStark @Tengrain @Cleopatra I get it. But there was never a time when corporations were not greedy. If we passed related laws 20 years ago, and still have the problem; then the fix failed. The fix always fails because we keep giving money (power) to the same small group. You are right that it's hard to fix. You can wait too long to break a habit; and become unable to fix it.
@TonyStark @Tengrain @Cleopatra Every law we already have is an older attempt to fix these problems.
I don't like what Walmart forces companies to do. But they are huge because it's like walking into a low-price parallel-universe; and people can't help themselves.
A company that can't sell their products cant rip anybody off though. That only happens if you are serious about giving money to their competitors instead.
@TonyStark @Cleopatra @Tengrain The only sincere way to complain about this situation is to change your buying habits. That's the point. No law can fix it if you keep going to Starbucks paying whatever they want to charge; etc.
@TonyStark @Cleopatra @Tengrain I think it was the idea that inflation and corporate profits go together. We have big-ass monopolies because we get tricked into having everybody work for the big-company, and buy from big-company; and noting the monopoly that it created. It isn't a paradox when record profits are reported by giant companies during inflation. They pass their costs on, and people keep buying.
@Tengrain @Cleopatra @TonyStark My family in Phillipines is doing this; creating milktea shops, as they get better at it. In the US, most people would not attemt to start their own without a pile of money. Different mindset.
@TonyStark As an example, I was once at a tech meetup in DC. Congressional staffers showed up, asking how to version-control legislation. They wanted to tweet diff changes to legislation, so you can see it being edited late at night just before it's voted on. The companies being regulated sometimes are the authors of the regulation; to beat down their competitors and give themselves a loophole.
@TonyStark It's hard to fight by beating on companies by passing laws, when consumers aren't giving them the beatings they deserve. By the time laws are passed, they work around it. Usually by moving things overseas, and paying off lawmakers for loopholes.
@Tengrain @TonyStark The problem is that the monopolies only exist because we let that happen in the first place. :-(
Starbucks is like a McD of $6 coffee. They would die overnight if instead of Unionizing, whole crews just started a shop.
The problem starts with too many people working for a big-ass company for peanuts, rather than starting small shops (for peanuts!). And customers falling into crap-buying habits.