#Monopolies

Miguel Afonso Caetano"A few days ago, Federal Reserve economist economist Ricardo Marto published an important paper on what happened to the economy in the period after Covid struck. What he found, after crunching numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, is that there was massive redistribution of wealth upward, from working people to big business.According to Marto, domestic non-financial corporate profits doubled, to $4 trillion a year. As a percentage of total economic output going to profits, they went from 13.9% to 16.2%, while the labor share modestly declined.There are two other disturbing elements in the paper. First, these profits went to reward shareholders in the form of dividends, not to investment to build more capacity. And second, profit levels have remained elevated. Throughout the pandemic recovery period, economists were vehement that profit increases did not reflect increased concentration, and that increased profits were temporary. Yet this research shows that such assumptions were wishful thinking.Indeed, the most serious domestic policy failure of the Biden administration was allowing their economists to aggressively avoid addressing this shift upward in wealth from working people to big business. And now let’s fast forward to the current moment. We are in a trade crisis, and this crisis has some echoes of the post-Covid supply chain mess. And I suspect Donald Trump might be repeating Biden’s mistake.This new crisis, of course, is the one that’s been wrought by Trump’s own abrupt tariff policies."<a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-monopolies-could-exploit-the" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-monopolies-could-exploit-the</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inequality</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWarfare</a>

:rss: Hacker NewsMark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ycombinator</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/social_media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#social_media</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facebook</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a>

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<a href="https://mas.to/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eu</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cartels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartels</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/barstewards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#barstewards</a> & this is why as individuals I think we should <a href="https://mas.to/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boycott</a> any & all of these 'platforms'. ✊ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/the-eu-fined-apple-and-meta-but-failed-to-really-hold-them-to-account-was-that-to-appease-trump?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/the-eu-fined-apple-and-meta-but-failed-to-really-hold-them-to-account-was-that-to-appease-trump?CMP=share_btn_url</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The day after President Donald Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, pricing guru Craig Zawada held an urgent summit for his clients. The global economy was roiling with anxiety, and stocks were in a tailspin, but Zawada had a more hopeful message to impart: For the businesses deploying his company’s “smart pricing” software, this was a rare opportunity.“There is perhaps more of a window to make changes to your pricing than there has been before,” Zawada said. Consumers, he explained, were bracing themselves for tariff sticker shock: “Customers expect change.”“Now,” he said, “is the time to take advantage.”Zawada works for PROS Holdings, a company that provides software services helping companies price their products, tailored in particular to airlines. He’s part of a cottage industry of “pricing optimization” consultants who, using lessons learned from pandemic price increases, are advising companies across industries on how to hike prices in response to tariffs or even just the threat of tariffs — and then keep them high.Republican Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson, the nation’s top antitrust cop, has been warning companies that enforcers are prepared to take action against tariff profiteering. Yet he has effectively given the consultant class a “green light,” as one former FTC official told The Lever, by rolling back an inquiry scrutinizing their practices."<a href="https://www.levernews.com/how-trump-is-helping-price-gougers-exploit-his-tariffs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.levernews.com/how-trump-is-helping-price-gougers-exploit-his-tariffs/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PriceGouging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PriceGouging</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PriceOptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PriceOptimization</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inflation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeWars</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.“Google's conduct in this case has created a risk of impeding fair competition concerning transactions — thus, we have determined that this is an act in violation of the Antimonopoly Act,” she added."<a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antimonopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antimonopoly</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The corollary is that just because Trump has dismantled the agencies that were buoyed up by the movement, it doesn't make the movement itself smaller or less powerful. If anything, the Trump regime's relentless pursuit of an agenda in service to the rich at working people's expense will only add fuel to the anti-corporate, anti-billionaire wildfire. Trump's tariff chaos might be bad for some parts of the ruling class, but as Van Jackson writes for Labor Notes, there's plenty of plutocrats who love the prospect of a deep recession sparked by global trade chaos:[L]avish tax cuts, deregulation, and an environment friendly to union-busting are just as valuable to most CEOs as a growing economy. What they lose in the stock market, they will more than make up in surplus labor, a fire sale on distressed assets, and Trump’s promise to totally eliminate the capital gains tax. (...) American wealth is more concentrated today than it was in France on the eve of the French Revolution. People are pissed. That anger is out there, waiting to be harnessed by smart political movements: (...) To grab that anger and mobilize it, we need to show people that their rage over specific issues is actually downstream of excessive corporate power. Furious that one company owns every brand of eggs and has used the excuse of bird flu to make record profits? You're not angry about eggs, you're angry about corporate power:"<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/10/solidarity-forever-2/#oligarchism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/10/solidarity-forever-2/#oligarchism</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inequality</a>

Orion Ussner kidderI realized something today as I once again chewed over the rank moral cowardice of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Substack</a> both profiting off Nazi content *and* not carrying pornography.A huge part of the problem of the modern internet is that we have private <a href="https://mas.to/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> standing in for and being treated like public services.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/enshittificaiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittificaiton</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopoly</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@notjustbikes</a> precisely!Only <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStandards</a> can yield <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MultiVendor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MultiVendor</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MultiProvider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MultiProvider</a> systems necessary to prevent <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligopolies</a> and enshure <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ITsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ITsec</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpSec</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComSec</a>, thus being able to comply with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatSec</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IntlSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IntlSec</a> demands.Guess why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NORAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NORAD</a> runs <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BusyBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BusyBox</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a>? <ul><li>Because they demand every single line of code to be audited MANUALLY!</li></ul>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The trends for Walgreens aren’t good - it has closed a thousand stores since 2018, and plans to shut 1,200 more this year. And if you look at the gross operating income of the U.S. retail segment, it is collapsing.I put these charts together based on data in Walgreen’s annual reports. What’s going on? Well that’s simple. Margins are falling apart.Galloway and Elson went back and forth on why Walgreens is flailing. The company hasn’t modernized in the age of Amazon. It has too many stores. Bad management. A dumb acquisition of VillageMD in 2021. Etc. And these would seem like reasonable causes, since lots of other retailers are dying in the face of low price competition.But the real reason Walgreens, and the pharmacy business in general, is dying, is because of a failure to enforce antitrust laws against unfair business methods and illegal mergers. Elson touched on it when he mentioned lower reimbursement rates, but I don’t think people appreciate the full scope of what happened to Walgreens, and to the full pharmacy business in general. This is not a case of bad management, it’s a case of desperate management."<a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-real-reason-walgreens-collapsed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-real-reason-walgreens-collapsed</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Walgreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Walgreens</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Pharmacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pharmacy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a>

The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/RaSAI9puE_Y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/RaSAI9puE_Y</a>Why do a handful of rich men get to control how the world communicates?<a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/markzuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#markzuckerberg</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facebook</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/psl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psl</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/PartyforSocialismandLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartyforSocialismandLiberation</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoProbably the only acceptable choice made by Trump until now...:"Among the loyalists selected by Donald Trump to staff his second administration, Gail Slater stands out for a different reason: she unites right and left with a sceptical view of big business.While the US president’s other nominees tend to be traditional conservative free market advocates, Slater, his pick to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division, is expected to maintain the Biden administration’s vigorous approach to enforcement — much to Wall Street’s chagrin.In public remarks and written submissions to lawmakers, the 53-year-old Oxford graduate has expressed concern about market concentration and said enforcement should be focused on technology and sectors with a direct impact on Americans’ pocketbooks.Slater embodies the unlikely alignment of progressives who support tough antitrust enforcement and a new generation of populist conservatives helmed by vice-president JD Vance, who has called for the break-up of Google."<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/769709d5-f897-497d-a8f2-ce15a3c977ed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/769709d5-f897-497d-a8f2-ce15a3c977ed</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoJ</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigBusiness</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a>

wdhughes.bsky.social<a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/lukakopajtic.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lukakopajtic.com</a> put together this amazing list of alternatives to <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23American" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#American</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23monopolies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> that people should take a look at. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23DigitalIndependence" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalIndependence</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bsky.app</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PixelFed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelFed</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Lemmy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lemmy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FOSS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j2k8fg/breaking_free_from_american_big_tech_is_hard_so_i/#lightbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">From the BuyFromEU community o...</a>

The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪Privatization is a stupid idea (and destroys economies)<a href="https://youtu.be/o3ewDF5rkfI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/o3ewDF5rkfI</a><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatization</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/privateproperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privateproperty</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trains</a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"I believe that enshittification is caused by changes not to technology, but to the policy environment. These are changes to the rules of the game, undertaken in living memory, by named parties, who were warned at the time about the likely outcomes of their actions, who are today very rich and respected, and face no consequences or accountability for their role in ushering in the enshittocene. They venture out into polite society without ever once wondering if someone is sizing them up for a pitchfork.In other words: I think we created a crimogenic environment, a perfect breeding pool for the most pathogenic practices in our society, that have therefore multiplied, dominating decision-making in our firms and states, leading to a vast enshittening of everything.And I think there's good news there, because if enshittification isn't the result a new kind of evil person, or the great forces of history bearing down on the moment to turn everything to shit, but rather the result of specific policy choices, then we can reverse those policies, make better ones and emerge from the enshittocene, consigning the enshitternet to the scrapheap of history, a mere transitional state between the old, good internet, and a new, good internet."<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"It’s early in the second Trump term, but it seems like politics is now in a different place. This time, corporate America and billionaires are working with the Trump administration, not against it. The inaugural photos of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Sundar Pichai kissing the ring were crystal clear in their implication. Big fancy lawyers aren’t doing pro bono work “resisting” Trump, for fear of upsetting their clients. The mask is off.More importantly, the public is in a different place. Democratic voters, who almost always support their leaders, are actually angry with their own party. Certain institutional elites get that. Here’s the President of the United Auto Workers union, Shawn Fain, attacking Democrats, saying that “Trump is president because we have candidates in this party who can’t decide who the fuck they want to represent.”There’s a lot of skepticism about whether we live in a democratic society, as it often seems like the government and our corporations just aren’t responsive to the public’s concerns over corruption, inequality, monopoly, and so forth. But I think this view masks a much scarier possibility, which is that we do live in a democratic society, and the public just hasn’t been particularly concerned about corruption, inequality, monopoly, and so forth.What’s important about what Bernie is doing, and these other signals, is he might be showing that fear of oligarchy is the dominant view of a large swath of the public. If that’s the case, a lot of things could change, and quicker than we might imagine."<a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-populist-revolt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-populist-revolt</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernie</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plutocracy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticParty</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Requiring AI developers to get authorization from rightsholders before training models on copyrighted works would limit competition to companies that have their own trove of training data, or the means to strike a deal with such a company. This would result in all the usual harms of limited competition—higher costs, worse service, and heightened security risks—as well as reducing the variety of expression used to train such tools and the expression allowed to users seeking to express themselves with the aid of AI. As the Federal Trade Commission recently explained, if a handful of companies control AI training data, “they may be able to leverage their control to dampen or distort competition in generative AI markets” and “wield outsized influence over a significant swath of economic activity.” Legacy gatekeepers have already used copyright to stifle access to information and the creation of new tools for understanding it. Consider, for example, Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, widely considered to be the first lawsuit over AI training rights ever filed."<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/ai-and-copyright-expanding-copyright-hurts-everyone-heres-what-do-instead" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/ai-and-copyright-expanding-copyright-hurts-everyone-heres-what-do-instead</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AITraining</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RentSeeking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RentSeeking</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a>

Catherine Collingwood EstesMultiple <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bipartisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bipartisan</a> bills have been advanced that support the underlying goal of addressing anticompetitive, anti-consumer practices employed by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PBM</a>. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rx</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/prescriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prescriptions</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/legislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legislation</a> <a href="https://buff.ly/3WVE0tx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/3WVE0tx</a>

beSpacific<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> made $20.8B dollars of profit in its last reported quarterly earnings off the back of products that are bordering on non-functional, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> made $24.11B in profit with an increasingly-deteriorating series of productivity products and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cloud</a> -based solutions that its customers <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hate</a>, and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> made $26.5B in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#profit</a> from multiple <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> and making its core <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> product worse as a means of increasing the amount of times that people search for stuff. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWS</a> <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/</a>

Lost body :slackware_linux: 🐼Δεν νιώθετε αναβαθμισμένοι τώρα που σας χρεώνουμε παραπάνω ρε Μαδουραίοι; Που μου είχατε καλομάθει να αγοράζετε από φυσικά σημεία κάρτες με 8ευρα, που ζείτε στην προ Κούλη εποχή;<a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/cosmote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmote</a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/%CE%9C%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B7_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Μητσοτακη_καθαρμα</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"On a firm-by-firm basis, small businesses score an easy win, according to beautifully detailed Census Bureau data — the invaluable Business Dynamics Statistics — built from government records drawn from just about every private sector employer in the country. About 60 percent of American businesses have fewer than five employees, and 98 percent have fewer than 100 employees.But we’re not sure about the utility of a measure that counts Goldman Sachs and Tariq’s #1 Halal Food equally — even if we can all agree that Tariq makes the superior chicken biryani.If we weigh America’s businesses instead by the number of their employees, we see the trend Texas Pete feared: Before the Great Recession, most Americans worked for businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Today, it’s reversed, with 53 percent of us working for businesses with 500 or more workers.The rule applies across the economy — the smaller the business, the slower the growth. But the real drivers of this economy-wide shift sit at the extremes: Businesses with fewer than 100 employees have steadily lost ground while business with more than 10,000 employees have gained."<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/is-america-still-nation-small-businesses/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/is-america-still-nation-small-businesses/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrst</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SMEs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SMEs</a>

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