Just heard the interview on NPR. Worth a read.

  • @AlternatePersonMan
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    (not) > allowing mergers of companies that are already large enough to be publicly traded at all>

    That’s a great way of putting it. I’ve said that once you own X market share or produce X revenue, mergers should not be allowed. No innovation or competition comes from letting giant companies devour their rivals. I like your line in the sand better.

    • @AllonzeeLV
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      No innovation or competition comes from letting giant companies devour their rivals.

      Exactly! It only helps people with too much already hobble competition to pocket even more for themselves at society’s direct expense at those levels, while completely discrediting the primary supposed core tenant of capitalism we’re indoctrinated from childhood to believe it provides: competition.

      Civilization has been propagandized to forget that economies aren’t supposed to exist to maximize capital extraction for private investors at society’s expense, an economy is supposed to be a lowly tool of a society used to maximize the efficient and equitable distribution of goods and services within a society for the benefit of said society.

      The tail is wagging the dog, and captured world governments loudly declare during any crisis that they will use all the power at their disposal to protect the well being of their beloved societies economies.

      Just dwell on how perverse that ideology is. The entire point, the well being of human beings, is lost.

      • @Sanctus
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        Institutions survive long after their meaning has been lost. All of recorded history is nearly this identitical power struggle with abstractions applied as time goes on. We have been at this for nearly as long as society has existed. I have small hopes at this point, even our schools exist to prepare children for the factory line. We are so far down this backwards path it might kill us to turn around.