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Onward and upward - #Mamdani #LinaKhan
Down with the #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #monopolists
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#monopolists
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/
#DrStrangelove and his #FellowTravelers like to think of themselves as ‘Masters of #Strategy’, but in reality they barely manage to make it as #Monopolists. Faced with #competition they crumble and can only get respond to #Competitivethreats by dramatically lowering prices. This is not #CompetitiveAdvantage unless you lower your costs commensurately. Firing everyone just won’t get you there will it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/23/elon-musk-tesla-earnings-outlook/
Supporters of the appeal to the German Rectors’ Conference #HRK have posted their comments on the openpetition platform
Maria Chiara Pievatolo from #Pisa:
„#Universities should own their #communication and their data, rather than giving away them to commercial #monopolists for free, just to buy them back from the very same monopolist.“
Justin Stanley from Lexington, #Kentucky, USA:
„Institutions should have full control over their #socialmedia rather than leaving it to the whims of #billionaires.“
Take #vacant storefronts away from #greedy #landlords and #house people.
#People before #Profits & human safety over empty houses to prop up #capitalists and #land #monopolists.
This isn't even #UrbanPlanning it is #urban #CommonSense
https://rall.com/2023/12/06/hot-take-8-take-away-empty-storefronts-from-greedy-warehousing-landlords
@dangillmor
Do you think that we are reaching a point where people need to stand up against #bigTech and reject them as #monopolists and digital feudalists?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ayrVYwoe-DY
It's time to restart our #trustbusting and dismantle #monopolies. Monopoly #capitalism is bad for everyone. #Workers and #shareholders both lose out. The #economy suffers. Only the #monopolists do better.
I'm glad the #FTC has #NewBrandeis energy in it to push back against the lies coming from the #ChicagoSchool but #WeThePeople need to help by electing #antitrust politicians who will #BustTheTrusts like #TeddyRoosevelt.
@pluralistic Cory's latest on Amazon is a must read: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon
I've been locked into Amazon Prime for a while: I have movies on Prime Video, and a fuckton of Kindle books.
There Are Ways to turn these DRMed assets into more portable, perpetually accessible assets, and once that is accomplished, I think I'll break my lockin. They've been raising prices and been definitely shittier in letting me find what I want. #Amazon #Monopolies #Monopolists #FightTheOligarchy
@lykso
A long time ago on fedi, we wrote that we felt many people were identifying as #anarchist maybe to differentiate themselves from the #monopolists / corporateState totalitarians.
We felt that they simply wanted to be treated as sovereign citizens, not as cogs in the #corporatised and #commodified experiment some call #neoliberalism.
@desafinado You will, however, find the word "#monopolists" and I've certainly written a *lot* about #antitrust:
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