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This is exemplary of the type of sway which massively concentrated enterprises can have over governments, and will continue to have as more and more companies e

This is exemplary of the type of sway which massively concentrated enterprises can have over governments, and will continue to have as more and more companies engage in M&A: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Brennan2016.pdf http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Brennan2016.pdf Replace HRC with Jeff Bezos and "algorithm" with "consumer": https://busy.org/life/@blakemiles84/clinton-book-excerptish-the-cattle-rustler https://busy.org/life/@blakemiles84/clinton-book-excerptish-... At some point we're going to have to Bust the Trusts.

arcanus 9y ago
Teddy Roosevelt, where for out thou? The trend, barring an exceptional individual, is for power to consolidate further in the hands of the megacorps.
- teddyh 9y ago
  > where for out thou? Note: that’s a misuse of the quote; “wherefore” is, in moderns words, translated into “why”, not “where”. The quote “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” asks, in essence, “Why are you Romeo, and not someone else?”, i.e. someone without political baggage.