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Exactly. Unfortunately, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of destruction that Jeff and other billionaires have wreaked on US small businesses an
by jollofricepeas 2y ago
Exactly.
Unfortunately, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of destruction that Jeff and other billionaires have wreaked on US small businesses and the poor.
EXAMPLES:
Billionaires are driving up single family home prices across the US:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-buying-houses https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-buying-houses
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-single-family-homes-and-put-them-up-for-rent.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-s...
Bezos and Musk fight unionization and workers rights?
https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-deal-era-labor-institution https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-...
The prison phone market is owned by billionaires:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system
Amazon now accepts SNAP/EBT payments after destroying small businesses:
https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-card-payments/733575/ https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-car...
Farmers are not allowed to reuse seeds from billionaire firms:
https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise-farmers-resistance-and-fightback https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise...
- the_optimist 2y agoNotably, each item you cite involves some manner of prior government-centralized policy decision. Each forms the basis for a gross economic distortion.