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Quasi-monopoly

mercredi 21 octobre 2020 à 02:00

How Google used its quasi-monopoly power against Yelp.

It is ironic that Yelp itself is using its market power to help GrubHub cheat restaurants.

We should not try to understand this in terms of "good companies" and "bad companies". Rather, we need to prevent any companies from using their market power to get bigger. More generally, we need to make large companies split up so as to greatly increase the number of competitors in every field.

My tax proposal might help.

OSHA

mercredi 21 octobre 2020 à 02:00

*How [the wrecker] Gutted OSHA and Workplace Safety Rules.*

Preventing second wave

mercredi 21 octobre 2020 à 02:00

Vietnam appears to have prevented a second wave of Covid-19 while protecting the economy too.

Attorney general lying

mercredi 21 octobre 2020 à 02:00

One of the Breonna Taylor grand jurors has accused the attorney general of lying about what he said to the grand jury. He did not offer them the chance to indict for her killing.

That article practices the fashionable symbolic bigotry of capitalizing "black" but not "white". I linked to the article despite that because its substance is important.

Urgent: Call on Congress to impeach Attorney General Barr

mercredi 21 octobre 2020 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Congress to impeach Attorney General Barr.

The idea is that even though we know the Senate will not remove Barr from office, the impeachment will hamper the Senate from confirming Judge Barrett for the Supreme Court.

After signing, you can follow up by phoning your congresscritter.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.