There are definitely days I wish I still believed the government gave a flying fuck about the proletariat. But this is just downstream effects of “OK, OK, AT&T, and then we’re done with antitrust” Reagan policies. The consumer base seems to have widely been brainwashed into thinking the invisible hand leads to monopolies because best practices win, and thus fewer options mean the best ones have proven themselves.
People have been romanticizing the Roaring Twenties since I can remember, seemingly because it was a time of decadence ahead of the Depression, and therefore simpler times when everyone was happy. We’ve waltzed right back in to the same oligopoly structure that led to the '30s, and people expect it to turn out differently without any sort of structural reform.
There are definitely days I wish I still believed the government gave a flying fuck about the proletariat. But this is just downstream effects of “OK, OK, AT&T, and then we’re done with antitrust” Reagan policies. The consumer base seems to have widely been brainwashed into thinking the invisible hand leads to monopolies because best practices win, and thus fewer options mean the best ones have proven themselves.
People have been romanticizing the Roaring Twenties since I can remember, seemingly because it was a time of decadence ahead of the Depression, and therefore simpler times when everyone was happy. We’ve waltzed right back in to the same oligopoly structure that led to the '30s, and people expect it to turn out differently without any sort of structural reform.