On the contrary, #production under #capitalism is strikingly undemocratic. It is controlled overwhelmingly by the few who hold most of the power over #finance, #wealth, #capital & investible #assets: the large #financial firms, the #commercial #banks, the #monopoly #corporations, & the 1%.
#monopoly #ludophile #boardgames #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork
Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
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Interesting look at the precursor to Monopoly, and specifically a British version of The Landlord’s game, published in Dumfriesshire in 1913. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMAAqF-As4&feature=youtu.be #boardgames #games #Monopoly #Dumfriesshire
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"…thanks to internal memos published during last year's #monopoly trial against #Google, we know what they did. They made #search worse. They reduced the system's accuracy it so you had to search twice or more to get to the answer, thus doubling the number of queries, and doubling the number of #ads.
Meanwhile, Google entered into a secret, illegal collusive arrangement with #Facebook, codenamed #JediBlue, to rig the ad market, fixing prices so advertisers paid more and publishers got less." @pluralistic
#adtech
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/
In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord’s Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie’s original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called “Prosperity”, where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing together only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-landlords-game-and-mWonopolys-origins/
#boardgames, #monopoly
Those who own your data own you! In this episode, Aral Balkan exposes how billionaire corporations have seized control of the internet, turning us into products, and why reclaiming our digital rights is the fight of our lifetime.
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/Hr3POZzAH-g
@aral
#podcast #bigtech #smalltech #people #farming #privacy #monopoly #power #data
The internet was supposed to set us free, but as Cory Doctorow reveals, it’s been hijacked by monopolies that lock us in, strip us down, and sell us back to ourselves… though the fight isn’t over yet.
"The Internet is Crack" Podcast.
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/0N3q-qHVdg8
@pluralistic #monopoly #bigtech #podcast #theinternetiscrack #antitrust #tech #technology #information
Just did it myself.
This isn't just happening with my ISP. For-profit utilities that own copper phone lines have been trying to dump them. The public inundated the CA Public Utilities Commission to let them know we want our landlines. So the for-profit utilities are just trying to keep hiking prices instead to force customers to drop out.
I sent evidence of price hikes in 2 years.
If you've heard of or seen this, please write CA Attorney Gen antitrust and/or CA PUC.
Don't think the big corps don't smell blood on the water.
This is after we just got an increase last July.
I'm going to write CA's Attorney General about this and I suggest other Californians do the same.
Copper is more reliable for me than cell would be. This is even more true for people in rural areas.
Here's some good news:
The looming death of a cruel #monopoly with a deep #history of #colonial #exploitation, #humanrights abuses, fueling #terrorism and #warlords
You see, when you can grow it in a lab, nobody cares anymore about your dirty price fixing games, #DeBeers
Welcome to oblivion
History books will not write "ooh! sparkly!"
They will write about the toll of human suffering you inflicted
"#Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down"
Great example of how monopolistic capitalism is not about making people’s lives, or anyone else’s, better. Also closing warehouses in Quebec contradicts the lie that oligarchs are job creators. Amazon’s model is about siphoning community health and wealth through supply control, the plantation. Self-determination through worker control is the path to liberation.
#Quebec #Amazon #shipping #union #monopoly #capitalism
https://c.im/@msbellows/113872987704711658
https://globalnews.ca/news/10971767/amazon-canada-closes-warehouses-quebec/
Update. "The manufacturer of a machine that costs six figures used during heart surgery has told hospitals that it will no longer allow hospitals’ repair technicians to maintain or fix the devices and that all repairs must now be done by the manufacturer itself."
https://www.404media.co/medical-device-company-tells-hospitals-theyre-no-longer-allowed-to-fix-machine-that-costs-six-figures/
Calling all #entrepreneurs to #innovate and be direct competitors to #Trump's cronies (#Musk, #Zuckerberg etc.). We cannot let #radical nuts have a #monopoly on #space, #AI, #electricvehicles, and #socialmedia. Due to recent events, I hope to see new, less radical entrepreneurs in our near future.
Unfortunately, the Nash equilibrium for a VC-funded social network provider is to attract as many users as possible with the idea of #decentralization, but to give the VC the expectation of making money with an unrivaled #monopoly.
FRILAND, Denmark
Scandinavian ecovillage rethinks homeownership: no mortgages, no waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtPRuLbJCg
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