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Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by kfprt on Sunday August 08, 2021 @10:55AM (#28107171)
Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
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Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by kktkti9 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @11:06AM (#28107256)
You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice?

I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.

Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.

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