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Re:Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America by dforrestwilson on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:19AM (#15191527)
This is exemplary of the type of sway which massively concentrated enterprises can have over governments, and will continue to have as more and more companies engage in M&A: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Brennan2016.pdf

Replace HRC with Jeff Bezos and "algorithm" with "consumer": https://busy.org/life/@blakemiles84/clinton-book-excerptish-...

At some point we're going to have to Bust the Trusts.

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Re:Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America by arcanus on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:18AM (#15192054)
Teddy Roosevelt, where for out thou?

The trend, barring an exceptional individual, is for power to consolidate further in the hands of the megacorps.

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Re:Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America by teddyh on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:01AM (#15192454)
> where for out thou?

Note: that’s a misuse of the quote; “wherefore” is, in moderns words, translated into “why”, not “where”. The quote “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” asks, in essence, “Why are you Romeo, and not someone else?”, i.e. someone without political baggage.

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