https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/independent-ends.html this is how the big business kills independents and why places like this matter so much
@lilyunsub Yet another reminder of how disgustingly corrupt and broken our world is.
I'm at the point of "burn it all down and start over" - I don't feel it's salvageable anymore. Been there for a while.
@lilyunsub Now, "burn it all down" isn't necessarily literal... aggressive policies to obliterate current economic power structures would be sufficient with the right people in power.
Mandate low-resolution stock trading (instead of trades happening immediately, they are cached and all executed on the hour with a *randomized* order of preference) to kill HFT, minimum ownership lengths on securities to kill arbitrage and day trading, a blanket ban on corporate mergers... oh it'd be fun.
@lilyunsub And then the market shakeup begins.
Markets with =<4 competitors are targeted for antitrust action; all large entities in any such market are systematically subjected to regulatory breakups aimed to create competition.
Rather than allowing competitors to engulf them, failed businesses are nationalized, their assets/employees transferred to state-owned conglomerates tasked with entering/disrupting uncompetitive markets. To ease this goal, state industry is exempted from patent law.
@lilyunsub Thanks!
That's actually just a small piece of what I've got... I've spent a lot of time over the years coming up with a fairly comprehensive rework of the whole system...
A whole web of interlocking policies that, if implemented, would radically change the nature of our society for the better.
The idea is to start out by fixing capitalism... and then once capitalism's working more in line with the theoretical ideal, incrementally transform it into a novel type of market-socialism.