@rbreich
Unrigging the system is little more than tinkering at edges. Forcing monopolies to relinquish control demands the kind of systematic change most don’t have the stomach for. The vicious levels of social, economic, and cultural violence used to maintain dominance needs to be matched, with blood, because you can’t negotiate with psychopaths.
@rbreich What about monopsonies? Arguably those are worse. What Amazon is able to do to sellers, indies and publishers, what gig food apps can do to restaurants and similar situations destroy the ability for anyone to chase the American dream.
All the traditional pathways out of generational poverty have been devoured.
Why doesn't anyone in the USA understand the concept of codetermination, where half the members of corporate boards of directors are workers, the other half from investors?
Why have you never said anything about it?
I sincerely doubt you read these comments - much less respond to them. It's discouraging.
I think anti-democracy billionaires need consequences
Rebekah Mercer
Chris Buskirk
Peter Thiel
Woody Johnson
Leonard Leo
Barre Seid
Tim Dunn
Bernie Marcus
Larry Ellison
Diane Hendricks
Dick Uihlein
Erik Voorhees
Emil Michael
@rbreich Yeah I wish people would recognize #Linux as the Labor #Union of Operating Systems.
If we would collectively act, to help each other out by switching to Linux, and stop being beholden to (Ads in your Start Menu) Big Tech, and do the work to take back the means of computation, we'd have a chance against stupid corporate dystopia.
Many companies similarily beholden to big tech need to be broken up, but change starts at your home directory.
@rbreich
I heard on an interview with someone (I forget who sorry) that described corporate America as having evolved over the last decade or so into "Legalized Organized Crime".