Pay phones have vanished
We really screwed up by restricting communication to only the privileged.
We are excluding more people from our society each year; lack of housing, air conditioning, higher food prices, no effective social supports.
And you wonder why crime is high, eh.
Wait a couple years ...the lack of community inclusiveness will blow up in our faces.
#Entitlement #Monopoly #Communication
#HumanRights #Canada
#Poverty #Crime #housing
Pupontech.com is how behind #bunnycdn moving from the #monopoly that is #Cloudflare
Hopefully it feels ok
@thelobdegg np.
I just think it's important to know that #Valve is in a better negotiation position than the payment processors.
They could've easily used their captive clientele and moved to #NowPayments but they chose not to becaise #GabeN doesn't give a damn about "#FreezePeach" bbut only his bottom line…
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Once it is realized that business monopoly in America paralyzes the system of free enterprise on which it is grafted, and is as fatal to those who manipulate it as to the people who suffer beneath its impositions, action by the government to eliminate these artificial restraints will be welcomed by industry throughout the nation.
For idle factories and idle workers profit no man.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
‘Monopoly’: Inside Netflix’s Massive Bake-Off To Win Right To Produce Board Game Reality Series
#News #Monopoly #Netflix
https://deadline.com/2025/07/monopoly-netflix-wild-bake-off-reality-series-1236463494/
Trump 2.0 Support For Lina Khan Style Antitrust Reform Wound Up Being An Unsurprising Lie
#monopoly : the exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity
- French: monopole
- German: das Monopol
- Italian: monopolio
- Portuguese: monopólio
- Spanish: monopolio
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We had a premise:
That companies are supposed to be in competitive markets
That markets are supposed to be transparent
That there are laws to be held accountable to
That public markets had regulators
None of these things are true anymore.
-Anil Dash
Love this. So true.
“ #Trump admin is raising #prices that are at the heart of the #affordability crisis". --#JaredBernstein
Post-trade war, tariffs are up $21 billion/month.
Or $736/year for every man, woman. & child living in the US.
At the moment, importers are eating a lot of this tax, but sometime this year, much of this will pass through to consumers. The rest will result in lower margin for businesses without #monopoly power.
https://econjared.substack.com/p/did-someone-neglect-to-tell-the-president?publication
"The #monopoly #media morons for whom he’s entertained tens of millions of ad-viewing viewers deemed it so, and I’m sure it has nothing to do w Stephen #Colbert using his brilliant timing and razor-sharp wit to disembowel Don-Don on the regular"
CONT-> https://www.blueamp.co/publish/post/168652683 #writing #humor #funny #tv #ai #usa #america #unitedstates #fascism #us #russia #democracy #tech #news #politics #press #entertainment
#nestle can go eat a bag of shit. They are a horrible company and have been doing shitty stuff for decades.
#corpoategreed #monopoly
#abuseofpower
https://seattle.eater.com/restaurant-news/87186/seattle-strong-nestle-seattles-best-coffee-trademark-dispute
''it isn't the state ... pushing people into situations where they can't afford to live. The private sector is doing that.
...pushing up rents... property costs... interest charges on mortgages and car loans... price on ... mobile phone contracts, electricity, gas prices, and water... pushed up because they are supplied by private monopolies... fueling the excess profits of these businesses"
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/16/is-the-uk-really-living-beyond-its-means/or
#inequality #monopoly #inequality
"#Safari is one of Apple’s most financially successful #products and the highest margin product Apple has ever made."
TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical #restrictions are #blocking other #browser vendors from successfully offering their own #engines to users in the EU.
Apple is not in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regarding browsers and web apps.
long read - but well worth it!
#dma #apple #europe #market #monopoly
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/
Ich erbitte das große #brettspiele Orakel um Rat 
Wo genau muss ich dafür mein #monopoly in die Flammen des Schicksals werfen? 
Ich suche nach kleinen Solospielen oder 2 Spieler aber Koop, die man auf Wanderungen gut mitnehmen könnte. Sie sollten schon wirklich kleinformatig sein.
Long Live RSS! - While we know that many of you are reading Hackaday via our Really Simple Syndicat... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/long-live-rss/ #enshittification #computerhacks #monopoly #comic #art #rss
Title: Monopoly (1988)
Released: None
Platforms: SEGA Master System
Reading an article on electric buses, I was struck by these lines:
>> If the T [Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ] chooses to use federal money to purchase electric buses, it cannot purchase any bus that comes from (or has parts made in) China. Yet these are the best, least expensive electric buses on the market today and for the foreseeable future. This China ban means that every US transit agency using federal funds is forced to purchase from one vendor, New Flyer.
This is a classic monopoly marketplace, and you don’t need a degree in economics to understand that such marketplaces do not offer best-value pricing. At a time when the T should be maximizing the use of its financial resources, spending any money on electric buses until we can make purchases of quality equipment in a competitive market makes no fiscal sense. <<
"Monopoly" has been a boo word for more than two centuries in US history, yet here we see one example of how US policy has created one, with all the extra expense for ordinary people and potential for abuse that private monopoly entails.
Look forward to Trump's trade policies multiplying this kind of expense and inefficiency in every corner of US life.
https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/why-the-mbtas-electric-bus-mandate-is-a-bad-idea/
A Democratic Socialist Smashes Wall Street in New York: What Zohran Mamdani Means for the Anti-Monopoly Movement
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-democratic-socialist-smashes-wall
