This board has brought up multiple times on how bad our govt is, CDC, FDA, etc and yet barely anyone mentions just how destructive major corporations are. I would even argue that they are more destructive because they've damaged the fabric of our society.
Let's take Uber for example: it started off as a start up that allowed drivers flexibility to earn extra income without having a boss watching over you. It was championed as a pioneer and innovator in the transportation industry that disrupted the other regulated taxi monopolies.
Now, it has morphed into a giant conglomerate that refuses to change. It recently released a statement that they plan on improving their profitability by slashing driver pay, despite the fact that they haven't increased it since 2018. Now mind you, the 2 biggest driver expenses(his car and fuel) went up in price by over 30% since 2021.
So how can they do this? By hiring illegal aliens to drive for bottom of the barrel wages. Used to be that Uber paid around 1$ per mile. Now due to the fact that they have iilegals, they pay as low as 30 cents per mile. At the same time, Uber increased the fares for the passengers as well.
You might think: what's stopping anyone open a new company to challenge them, and the answer is: regulations. Once Uber made it big, they lobbied the federal govt to implement regulations to "improve" the ridesharing experience. In reality it was just extra layers of protection against their competitors.
And Uber is just 1 example. Ever notice how companies now don't even let you own your own products? You buy a phone but you can't upgrade it, you buy a car but you need to take it to the dealership to work on it because of the artificial increase in complexity they do. And don't get me started on the whole wanting to implement subscription software for your car without which you wouldn't be able to drive it.
Also, let's talk how corporations destroyed the job market. First they come in with the notion that they need to close down and outsource the factories to stay profitable, but don't worry the prices aren't going up, because the labor is going to be cheaper. Then they hire H1Bs to replace specialized labor to keep costs down. This makes them more competitive and drive competitors out of business after which they bump the price. Not to mention the quadrilions spend on ads to turn normies into brainless consumers.
I can go on and on, but the bottom line is that big business has been as damaging to the fabric of our society as big govt has, and yet barelly anyone talks about it.
Big Pharma, Big Tech, too big to fail from the 2008 financial “crisis” are some examples of Big Business discussions. What’s not talked about is Big Universities.
OH we have talked about it! [me, for one, for DECADES! We get the society we purchase with our spending.]
The best we can do, is to buy LOCAL, from local family farms and businesses. There are some independent businesses we can support from the internet even if they are not geographically local.
Those are the targets for removal though. Think covid shutdown and regulations. Small town hardware and grocery stores for miles around, put out of business because the shoppers will drive to a Walmart save a nickel. Then one day they need a light bulb, and have to drive 30 miles . . . They aren't really saving anything!~ esp not their culture, their society, their neighbors . . .
The new trend in restaurants, from farm to table, is a very positive movement. Even small plots of land can be used to raise specialty products. Fortunately (so far) even the left likes this. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford to go to pricey restaurants, or any restaurants!
Micro economics needs to be a movement Buy from your neighbors and from the field
I agree.
I have never used an Uber car for the reasons you give.
We are fascist, by definition. No one of influence wants to say it. One could almost say big business IS the government.
We need clear, concise antitrust laws to check the size of corporations and ensure a competitive marketplace. I hear ya.
Believe it or not, but these laws already exist in the aviation industry. For example: the FAA recently stopped the merger of Spirit and JetBlue for the exact reason.
🤷🏻♂️Maybe because they’re pretty much one and the same? Just a guess.
There's a big component that not enough are aware of.
The Senior Executive Service. It where big corporations and the government align. Unelected lifers, running COG and using corp money, to build the G. Corruption on steroids.
But to address your post.
I travel weekly for work. Was in San Francisco, LA, and now San Diego this week. I haven't been here in over a year.
As far as Uber etc. All those bs gig jobs are going to die. Waymo is everywhere here. Self driving cars that will destroy Uber. No need to pay a robot.
I shared an elevator yesterday with a fucking robot cooler that took food to the 5th floor and the 5 buttom just lit up.
On every street corner these saymo and coco food deliveries are running around. This will kill door dash etc.
Ai is going to destroy a lot of these low level jobs that require zero skill.
I'd focus on the mega corps. Coke, Pepsi, Marlboro and how their money is used by those in the SES.
Kim Cheatle who headed the SS during the assassination. She's SES. Was appointed by Cheney, given a job at Pespsi, headed SS, was ran out, and I guarantee, went back to SES with a cushy corporate position.
Not so sure about waymo or all these delivery services. We already saw supermarkets trying to implement self checkout, only to roll it back because of all the theft.
As someone said, I don't think these corporations realize the budget that is going have to go into these cars or delivery machines simply because their owners maintain them. All the uber/doordash drivers fuel, maintain and clean their own cars free of charge.
Waymo and co will literally have to have people do all of the above. Now imagine having also to maintain cars that are vomited in, pissed in, damaged, broken, stolen, etc. You'd need to hire a fleet of mechanics that are going to maintain the software and mechanical component. These are all extra expenses because specialized labor ain't cheap.
Personally I think they won't be able to compete with individual drivers simply because of the flexibility they offer. Most people to this day prefer a real human behind the wheel as opposed to a waymo for example, for the next 20-30 years I don't see them becoming mainstream.
Big gov, big biz -- all controlled by the same cult. It's a big club.
Thinking too small! Who owns the banks that own the businesses? Who owns our federal reserve and that of the other countries? Who runs the world?
You are so right. We need to rethink what we buy, how we invest, and how we work.
its all one in the same. the corporations run the government and the government makes the rules and regulations for the corporations.
Uh ... We talk about it all the time. But changing the gov't is more effective, so it gets more discussion.
In other words, change one company or even one industry, and it will be taken over by some other horrible profit-monster monopoly. Gov't could easily prevent this with an antitrust suit. So ... government acquiescence to this issue (or active promotion of it) is the root of the problem and a more productive angle of attack for us. WWG1WGA, fren! We're on the same team.
Changing the G by vote, doesn't change those in the SES. See above
Not enough understand the connection. All big corps have overlapping BOD's. By design.
Then you have your vanguards and state streets.
The system is designed for control, from banking, to big corps, to aligning G interests. As far as the US goes, it's just several different mafia families.
Let's say CA Pelosi mob Chicago Mocha messiah mob Clinton NY mob
They all have their own interests in mind, enrich themselves at the expense of others. Some times their interests align and they can profit together, but 1 mob doesn't know what the other mob is doing.
Big corps are just the cash cow to be extorted.
Patrick Byrne is a great history lesson on how big business gets manipulated by the G and his experience had nothing to do with the SES. He was just a patsy to a compartmentalized intel op.
We really need to take a look at the SES and who they're corrupting.
The SES is the deep state.
Preach it, fren!
Results of a speculation economy rather than production economy.