Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

This is confusing to me because if there is one thing I have learned, it is that your positions are always 100% consistent and 100% correct. So I dutifully began banging the "break up the big tech monopolies" drum yesterday to anyone who would listen, which made for some awkward spin class conversations and more than a few annoyed looks from legal assistants. Now you go 180 degrees on me, and I'm left with egg on my face. And I dislike eggs immensely, with their sulfury smell and unpleasant consistency.

Here is some African funk for the Daily Dose. De Frank Kakra with "Do Your Own Thing":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUdfokQMQ0

Well, you are in Minnesota, so i bet it passes. Like everyone who posts here with a college degree from a Minnesota school seems a bit off, and plus I've watched Fargo (movie and TV) and I think those folks will give you a pass. Unless, does your firm have a n office in more sophisticated places and you somehow sent out an email firmwide?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I sense that the conversations in today's spin class are only going to be even more awkward.

I'm surprised you haven't moved to soul cycle at this point.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I'm surprised you haven't moved to soul cycle at this point.

Am I on ignore?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Am I on ignore?

I give your posts the full amount of attention they deserve.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Let's take Google, just for one. Are they not an enduring monopoly in search?

I think a discussion of how Google's search results are displayed would be appropriate. DOT used to have detailed regs for computer reservation systems when they were owned by the airlines. ETA: Not implying those are a good model, just that regulation is in order if we think there's a problem.

I think the EC, as is its wont, is going about in in a backasswards way, though.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

One could break up Amazon, as there's bricks and mortar and supply networks, etc.

You're talking about undoing vertical integration, though. If you're trying to restore competition, you need to break it into parts that are going to compete with each other.

But taxing it seems the better course.

Not specific to Amazon, but the worst case scenarios of automation/efficiency is getting rid of the labor but keeping manufactured goods expensive. Especially if your goal is to generate well-being for displaced workers. Letting the price of what they need fall is much more direct than propping up prices to try to get some table scraps for them.

Now, if costs drop and prices don't, we need to go looking for some market power to step on.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Disruption and efficiency also drive deflation. Things get cheaper.

Yes, that's what's good about them.

This is not a great scenario in a situation where wage inflation is needed.

One way to raise real wages is for the stuff people need and want to buy to get cheaper.

*Not, none of what we are talking about is inflation or deflation, which are monetary phenomena.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

I think a discussion of how Google's search results are displayed would be appropriate. DOT used to have detailed regs for computer reservation systems when they were owned by the airlines. ETA: Not implying those are a good model, just that regulation is in order if we think there's a problem.

I think the EC, as is its wont, is going about in in a backasswards way, though.

In other words, "yes, Google has enduring monopoly in search." So what problems does that monopoly create?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

You're talking about undoing vertical integration, though. If you're trying to restore competition, you need to break it into parts that are going to compete with each other.

"Restore" competition? Amazon has plenty of competition. There is almost nothing you can buy from Amazon that you can't also buy in other places.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

"Restore" competition? Amazon has plenty of competition. There is almost nothing you can buy from Amazon that you can't also buy in other places.

Sebby's the one who implied there was a problem. I'm just saying his fix doesn't solve what I assumed his problem to be.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I'm surprised you haven't moved to soul cycle at this point.

Like I need my indoor stationary bicycling classes to become even MORE culty and weird. SoulCycle isn't out here anyway. It would damage the brand to let fat Midwesterners into their studios.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Like I need my indoor stationary bicycling classes to become even MORE culty and weird. SoulCycle isn't out here anyway. It would damage the brand to let fat Midwesterners into their studios.

The shaming of cults in this post is problematic, and offensive.

The body shaming of those deemed overweight to your standard is problematic, and offensive.

The shaming of those companies seeking to protect their brand, and hence their service marks, is problematic, and offensive, and now that I think about it, unAmerican.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Like I need my indoor stationary bicycling classes to become even MORE culty and weird. SoulCycle isn't out here anyway. It would damage the brand to let fat Midwesterners into their studios.

Son, I want to say one word to you.

SoulCycles.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

From the Seriously Foul Truths Desk:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/el...-chris-hedges/

The headline is at war with the first sentence.

"Elites ‘Have No Credibility Left’: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges"

"On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former New York Times correspondent."

[Replaced_Texan]

Apropos of the soccer discussion: https://www.theguardian.com/football...world-football