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And Berkshire Hathaway has an outsize position in the largest of them, HP. What else does BRK own, and thus influence via board and activist shareholder positi

And Berkshire Hathaway has an outsize position in the largest of them, HP. What else does BRK own, and thus influence via board and activist shareholder position that is in your home. This is the point. You can have a million “options” but if they all only benefit a handful of owners then no matter how you “vote” with your dollars it still makes the same people the same money. Again, you have to go to extremes to find a printer that is manufactured by a union or employee owned cooperative if there even are any.

ryao 4y ago
For what it is worth, HP barely still designs printers. Most of them are just rebadged Canons. They have a small number of models that are based on Samsung models that they got from their acquisition and an even smaller number of printers they actually made themselves. For the most part, when you buy a HP, you are buying a Canon printer with HP's label on it and HP firmware. HP is really just a middle man, and I am not sure why people keep buying their printers given that middlemen should be avoided.