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That's true. Agricultural production is mostly centralized (i.e. Monsanto's monopoly). Just because a lot of people consume food doesn't change that. One of th
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
That's true. Agricultural production is mostly centralized (i.e. Monsanto's monopoly). Just because a lot of people consume food doesn't change that.
One of the earliest centralized societies (cities) was Sumer, where we also see one of the first well established written languages (the written word being a centralizing medium) and also one of the first well established centers of agricultural production.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Agricultural production is mostly centralized (i.e. Monsanto's monopoly). Monsanto's dominance is in seed supply to agricultural producers, not agricultural production itself.
- wu-ikkyu 10y agoAre seeds not a fundamental requirement to agricultural production?
- dragonwriter 10y agoSure, but the Windows monopoly was a desktop OS monopoly, not a monopoly in every industry in which desktop computing capacity was a key input. Now, in the absence of effective regulatory intervention, there's a risk of a monopoly in one market being leveraged to other markets, and moving up or down the production chain is one of the most common ways that happens, but, there's still (even in the absence of effective regulatory intervention) a difference between a monopoly in market X and one in market Y that threatens to be extended to X.