cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28885132
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- 19 days
Bro what is with out fucking government and spending our tax dollars on fucking advertisment campaigns
God damn just do something useful with our money instead of wasting it trying to manipulate peoples opinions!
Peoples opinions are dogshit and stupid ad campaigns wont change that
- 18 days
I swear, I hear it in my sleep: paidforbythegovernmentofontario ding-dingding-ding
- 18 days
reading comprehension is so bad here, that’s literally how half the people read it
- 18 days
80% of all grocery sales go to one company
Regulated for by the government of Canada
And before people get angry assuming I’m against regulations I’m not, they’re just used as a weapon by Plutocrats to protect their own private kingdoms
In Canada we have:
2 grocery store parent companies
5 banks
2 railroads
2 telecos
1 power authority per province (in my province it’s a crown corp which is fantastic. Their shareholders are rate paying citizens not private shareholders)
3 shipping companies
What is it for car parent companies now? 3ish?
1 gas provider per province
All of our oil and gas companies are American except for 3
The only competition is among coffee shops and bistros, and even then the biggest chains are owned by 3 companies.
Anti trust legislation and enforcement and trust busting is way over due
- 18 days
None of the things listed should be run by private corporations at all.
We don’t need competition and innovation in these spaces. We don’t need 35 different kinds of chicken sandwich. We don’t need “options” for gas and electric rates.
We need safe, abundant, high quality, environmentally conscious essential goods and services, delivered AT OR BELOW the cost required to produce and deliver them at scale.
Make it all public ownership.
- 18 days
Yeah but who gets to decide which version of the chicken sandwich we’re going with?
- 18 days
Big fucking agree!
These are all natural monopolies. Massive, incomprehensible unbelievable amounts of money need to be invested to make a network, and then running the next train, or adding a new gas or power customer is peanuts.
Any time suggesting “hey, maybe we should build an entirely separate system so we can compete” results in people bringing you in for a forced psych eval, you’re talking about a natural monopoly.
It’s illogical to duplicate the network so “pRiVaTe CoMpEtItIoN” now has to negotiate common carrier agreements and the admin overhead makes it twice (sometimes 10X) more expensive than just one crown corporation owning the entire fucking thing!
