#Monopoly

For the first time this publicly, I shared this weekend a snapshot of the bullying I’ve experienced in my life & how my dad kicked me out as a teen
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Looking at Amazon's quarterly financials, it would be easy to mistake the company's $31b ad division as a serious shift in the online advertising industry, but that would be a
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The labor movement has a complicated relationship with monopolism. For a long time, economists (both right and left) documented the "large firm premium" - the higher wages that workers at
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A McDonalds hamburger costs $2.09 at the register. McDonalds internal documents show that the raw materials (patty, bun, etc.) cost $0.34. A McDonalds employee makes $11/hr on average with a
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[thread]1/9So I wanted to talk about the subtle abuse men face. I wanted to do it for awhile now but I really haven't had time to collect my thoughts.(Also this
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Well damn.... This is about the best explanation for the ridiculousness of the liberal protests that I have ever come across. They WANT people to attack them which solidifies their
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Thread:Imagine if that "other guy" was exploiting his kids in this manner. It would be national news. And I assure you that you'd have heard about it, because the outrage
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Thomas Twining, the famous tea merchant writes to EIC on the dangers of missionary activity in India & why they should be stopped.For close to 200 years EIC tried &
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This is the second and final week of "The Attack Surface lectures," a series of 8 bookstore hosted virtual events exploring themes in the third Little Brother book, Attack Surface.https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-doctorow-
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One really has to take issue with these sunny statements. Just today Lenin Moreno found Rafael Correa guilty of some confected crime, fraud/embezzlement/caring for his people etc, and the Bolivian
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The United States Government as it exists is closer to Marx's 10 planks of Communism than anyone gives it credit for. Let's go through this plank by plank. /A thread
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This article confuses a couple of distinct matters. It’s one thing to say that privacy is an aspect of product quality, cognizable under the consumer welfare standard. But that doesn’t
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Answers to some of the questions being raised after the passage of the #FarmBill2020.1) If MSP will stay why not write it in the bill?Because MSP has always been an
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There is a typo in the abstract, it should read:"Unlike other professions where common sense, decency and a free market to negotiate one's job sets working hours, medicine is different....https://twitter.com/NEJM/status/12763041663
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The Ohio legislature passed a bill to expand their private school choice program.House passed: 53-36Senate passed:
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Recall, that Bill Gates launched Microsoft via IBM. And ever since Bill Gates has invested billions in PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND VACCINES especially for African Countries. Bill Gates has been funding
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