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They said it was impossible. After decades of #antitrust cases over #PredatoryPricing - selling below cost to kill or prevent competitors - the #ChicagoSchool of neoliberal #economists "proved" predatory pricing didn't exist, so courts could stop busting companies for it.
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Predatory pricing - the economists explained - was illegal, but it was also imaginary. A mirage. No one would predatory price, because it was "irrational." Even if someone irrational enough to try it, they would fail. Stand down, American judges - predatory pricing is solved.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
#Pluralistic
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Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
#Pluralistic
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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…
5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…
5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…
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gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…
5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…
5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…
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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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Hi @matthewstoller & @ddayen I pay a lot of attention to both of you, and I was hoping to point you at what's going on with Intuit and QuickBooks - software that's at the heart of a lot of small businesses, including mine.
#QuickBooks #Intuit #monopoly #greed #terrible
#QuickBooks #Intuit #monopoly #greed #terrible
QuickBooks is a lot of products, but the ones most people know are QuickBooks Online (QBO), a monthly subscription for their accounting web application, and QuickBooks Pro for Windows (QBW), a Windows desktop application.
Intuit brings out a new QBW every year. Until 2022, QBW could be bought in two ways: a license for a specific year's version, say QBW 2019, for about $300, or as a subscription (QB Pro *Plus*) for about $350 a year that included version upgrades, support, and online backup.
This @bradplumer @nytimes covers a super important issue for the clean energy transition: being able to connect to the grid. I have a few addenda... 🧵 nytimes.com/2023/02/23/cli…
One reason we can't get transmission built for large scale solar and wind projects is that utilities have gamed the planning system to favor their own interests. @AriPeskoe covers this chapter and verse in his work on the "utility transmission syndicate" ilsr.org/electric-trans…
A particularly perverse policy -- state "right of first refusal" laws that utilities lobbied for in order to overcome a ban of the practice by @FERC. @venerable_bede explains why this undercuts competition and new transmission: ilsr.org/electricity-ma…
American electricity customers are likely overpaying #monopoly electric utilities by $2 to $20 billion per year, says a white paper from UC Berkeley's Energy Institute at HAAS: google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j…
Regulators charged with protecting the public interest have systematically failed to align the actual risk and reward of utility capital investments, allowing utilities to earn too much money on very low risk investments. Result: "a sizeable transfer from consumers to investors"
Here's a few highlights: "it is noteworthy that over recent years, utilities have earned sizeable regulated rates of return on their capital assets, particularly when set against the unprecedented low interest rate environment post-2008"
Vous savez que notre objectif c’est de rendre les clients heureux, et bien un jour il y en a un qui a été très heureux.
Je vous raconte.
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C’était il y a déjà très longtemps, un matin tôt, je rentre dans un hôtel près de la gare.
Cet hôtel est entièrement réservé pour les cheminots, il nous sert de foyer. C’est là où on dort lorsque l’on va loin avec nos trains.
Cet hôtel est entièrement réservé pour les cheminots, il nous sert de foyer. C’est là où on dort lorsque l’on va loin avec nos trains.
Comme on est nombreux tous les soirs (contrôleurs + conducteur), la SNCF a passé un contrat avec un hôtelier.
En gros, tout l’hôtel est à nous. Du lundi au dimanche.
#Monopoly
En gros, tout l’hôtel est à nous. Du lundi au dimanche.
#Monopoly
Christmas's apocalyptic airline meltdown stranded thousands, ruining vacations and costing fliers a fortune. It wasn't just #SouthwestAirlines' meltdown - as stranded fliers sought alternatives, airlines like #AA raised the price of some domestic coach tickets over $10K. 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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This didn't come out of nowhere. Southwest's growth strategy has seen the airlines add more planes and routes without a comparable investment in back-end systems, including crew scheduling systems. 3/
#ZeroToOne by is a must-read for anyone looking to build a successful business. Here are ten key takeaways from the book:
The concept of "#monopoly" - It's not about being the biggest player in the market, it's about creating a new market and being the only player in it.
The concept of "#monopoly" - It's not about being the biggest player in the market, it's about creating a new market and being the only player in it.
The power of "definite #optimism" - Instead of shooting for incremental improvements, aim for a 10x increase in value. #peterthiel
The importance of "#secrets" - The most valuable businesses are built on secrets that are hidden from the #competition.
Everything you don’t know about #monopoly:
And speaking about assumed monopolies:
Given the current glacial state of the #ttrpg hobby, this is the kind of content that you can post every day while waiting for the penny to drop for some relevant number of people.
The original sin of tech boosters and critics is an undue focus on what a technology *does*, rather than who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*. When it comes to technology's effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more than the feature-sets. 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/12/02/not… 2/
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This is the premise behind my idea of the #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve: if you want to do something horrible to people with technology, you must first inflict it on people without social power. 3/
In Bezos's original plan, the company called "Amazon" was called "Relentless," due to its ambition to be "Earth's most customer-centric company." Today, Amazon is an enshittified endless scroll of paid results, where winning depends on ad budgets, not quality. 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Writing in Jeff Bezos's newspaper the @WashingtonPost, veteran tech reporter @geoffreyfowler reports on the state of his boss's "relentless" commitment to customer service. The state is grim.
washingtonpost.com/technology/int… 3/
washingtonpost.com/technology/int… 3/
"The emergence of #government as organized #violence-cum-#robbery"
SFI Seminar by @CoenTeulings (@UniUtrecht)
Video link:
Follow this 🧵 for highlights + slides!
SFI Seminar by @CoenTeulings (@UniUtrecht)
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Follow this 🧵 for highlights + slides!
"What's the motivation of this paper? We've seen in most of these locations that there was an #emergence of some form of hierarchical #government [correlated with] a monopoly of #violence and increased #inequality [and] most people lost."
- @CoenTeulings (@UniUtrecht)
- @CoenTeulings (@UniUtrecht)
Citing work led by SFI's Tim Kohler in 2017 showing the increase in #inequality (as measured by #GINIcoefficient) as society evolves greater political #scale and more complex/abstract means of production:
Via t.me/frontmediatiqu…
#Monopoly-La frénésie de Bill Gates pour les terres agricoles déclenche 1 enquête
La loi impose également «certaines limites à la capacité de posséder des terres agricoles ou des ranchs», a rappelé le procureur du Dakota du Nord. «Notre bureau ...⬇️
#Monopoly-La frénésie de Bill Gates pour les terres agricoles déclenche 1 enquête
La loi impose également «certaines limites à la capacité de posséder des terres agricoles ou des ranchs», a rappelé le procureur du Dakota du Nord. «Notre bureau ...⬇️
... doit confirmer comment votre entreprise utilise ce terrain et si la loi est respectée.»
Le média agricole AgWeek a révélé agweek.com/news/north-dak… que Bill, via son Red River Trust, a acheté dans cet Etat une vaste exploitation de pommes de terre, ⬇️
Le média agricole AgWeek a révélé agweek.com/news/north-dak… que Bill, via son Red River Trust, a acheté dans cet Etat une vaste exploitation de pommes de terre, ⬇️
... pour 13,5 millions de $.
Utilisant un réseau de fiducies et de sociétés de gestion d'actifs liées à la Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, le milliardaire vacciniste t.me/kompromatmedia… a acquis + de 97.000 hectares en 2021. Au total, ...⬇️
Utilisant un réseau de fiducies et de sociétés de gestion d'actifs liées à la Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, le milliardaire vacciniste t.me/kompromatmedia… a acquis + de 97.000 hectares en 2021. Au total, ...⬇️
1️⃣ #Monopoly-La frénésie de Bill Gates pour les terres agricoles déclenche une enquête.
La loi impose également «certaines limites à la capacité de posséder des terres agricoles ou des ranchs», a rappelé le procureur du Dakota du Nord.⤵️
La loi impose également «certaines limites à la capacité de posséder des terres agricoles ou des ranchs», a rappelé le procureur du Dakota du Nord.⤵️
2️⃣ «Notre bureau doit confirmer comment votre entreprise utilise ce terrain et si la loi est respectée.»
Le média agricole AgWeek a révélé que Bill, via son Red River Trust, a acheté dans cet Etat une vaste exploitation de pommes de terre, pour 13,5 millions de dollars.⤵️
Le média agricole AgWeek a révélé que Bill, via son Red River Trust, a acheté dans cet Etat une vaste exploitation de pommes de terre, pour 13,5 millions de dollars.⤵️
3️⃣ Utilisant un réseau de fiducies et de sociétés de gestion d'actifs liées à la Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, le milliardaire vacciniste a acquis plus de 97.000 hectares en 2021.⤵️
Firstly, this story should not go unnoticed. Let's do what needs to be done. Let's make @Google @GooglePlay know what WE as artists think about this absurdity and obvious corporate thievery. Let's not sit on the sidelines.
side-line.com/google-wants-1…
side-line.com/google-wants-1…
@Bandcamp is an amazing space and provides the independent artist with a plethora of ideas and tools to make their creative voices heard in this tough 'music business'. Google is literally a sham of a business. They offer 'free' products to entice us but use this model for ads.
And now @Google and @GooglePlay have decided to dive into the artists' pockets and take revenue from their Bandcamp sales. Ten F@$#! percent. While this is in court, we have to not let this stand. For once, really, we have to start to assert our power as people.
A month ago I wrote this 🧵 on why #import duties were not the answer to #Pakistan's Balance of Payments constraints. #ImportBans are certainly not the answer either. Rather, they exacerbate the underlying problem. Five thoughts. 🧵👇
1\ The usual: CAD results from a macro imbalance (Saving too low relative to investment, so foreign saving needed (borrowing) (CAD is the mirror image of borrowing from the rest of the world (financial account of BOP)). Fixing the CAD takes increasing saving (cool off demand).
2\ The #importban in #Pakistan reduces #imports (does it? see point 3\ below), but not the CAD, because it also reduces #exports.
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/05/01/imp…
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/05/01/imp…
🧵 time...
For years, as I have discussed the value prop for seizure-resistant, non-sovereign💲like #BTC with noobies, I have always had to caveat it with "we don't think about it in the Western world too much bc our money, banking system, and law typically work well"
Well...
For years, as I have discussed the value prop for seizure-resistant, non-sovereign💲like #BTC with noobies, I have always had to caveat it with "we don't think about it in the Western world too much bc our money, banking system, and law typically work well"
Well...
2/ #Bitcoin's value in the Western world has NEVER been more obvious thanks to the last ~ 2 years.
Reminder, it has ALWAYS been valuable to those less fortunate living under authoritarianism or double-digit inflation (over half the world)
newsweek.com/half-world-liv…
@gladstein
Reminder, it has ALWAYS been valuable to those less fortunate living under authoritarianism or double-digit inflation (over half the world)
newsweek.com/half-world-liv…
@gladstein
3/ Now, Westerners are getting their taste:
- 10%+ inflation for many (screw the official #CPI numbers)
- Bank accounts being inexplicably closed @haydenzadams @PeterMcCormack
- Govt freezing funds and threatening companies #TruckersForFreedom
- ~25% M2 debasement in ~2 years
- 10%+ inflation for many (screw the official #CPI numbers)
- Bank accounts being inexplicably closed @haydenzadams @PeterMcCormack
- Govt freezing funds and threatening companies #TruckersForFreedom
- ~25% M2 debasement in ~2 years
Dear @OptumRx & @SanfordHealth you are NOT his #physician. You know nothing of his #health hx. Two years ago #Sanford #Bismarck #pain clinic pulled all #patients off #opioid #pain medications. This was not #patientcentered care, but care deemed appropriate BY administrators 1
Now @OptumRx & @SanfordHealth #insurance sending out letters re #opioid #pain #medications. My son had to move from a #Sanford clinic to another clinic due to #abandonment. Yep, abandonment. Plain & simple what you did was harmful & not based on #patients needs. You need 2
to look at research, that shows the harms of what u r doing. @SanfordHealth administration in Bismarck informed me 2 years ago when all #patients pulled off #opioids that it was the ‘national standard’ of care established by @CDCInjury @CDCDirector. The guidelines are NOT 3/
I have been looking for a way into #Top20ColorSongs beyond just naming some songs with colours in that I like. There's no simple way of ordering colours with a start and end and I don't fancy delving into RGB values etc
But when I read @dreamfuel's snooker inspired twist an idea began forming. The @MonopolyUK board has 22 coloured squares, plus 4 stations and 2 utilities (which I will count as white as per their property cards).
So I will grab a pair of virtual dice shortly and see what colours the streets of London fancy throwing up.
I shall play as the ship as always, I will roll again if I land on the chests, parking, jail etc as I don't have access to an actual board. Playing standard UK version.
I shall play as the ship as always, I will roll again if I land on the chests, parking, jail etc as I don't have access to an actual board. Playing standard UK version.
1/12 A thread on #ANT and how to read #China #PBOC Governor speech on Fintech(#ANT) yesterday. The headline says only FinTech, but Wink Wink, ANT is all over. Get strapped because I will sprinkle some wide guesses and rumors in the end. pbc.gov.cn/goutongjiaoliu…
2/12 My quick take on Fintech (Ant) SINS: 1. Monopoly power 2. Winner takes all 3. Payment system seeping into finance, insurance, small loan and asset mgt. 4. FIN must be separated from Tech, Payment from FIN. 5. Data Security 6. Global Coop on Fintech regulation
3/12 Points 3, 4, 5 has been addressed! I'v written on ANT credit scoring JV+ SASAC take stakes in the three private credit scoring companies. And Alipay has been ordered to be separated from financial services, because FinTech is more Finny than Techy!
How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health | The Corbett Report (05/02/2020) #documentary corbettreport.com/how-bill-gates…
Bill Gates’ Plan to Vaccinate the World | The Corbett Report (05/09/2020) #documentary
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Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid | The Corbett Report (05/18/2020) #documentary
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#Facebook could be forced to sell off GIF platform #Giphy in response to UK regulators
by @CNNBusiness #competition #bigtech #regulation @WiserIn10
cnn.it/3AYtrsn
#Facebook could be forced to sell off GIF platform #Giphy in response to UK regulators
by @CNNBusiness #competition #bigtech #regulation @WiserIn10
cnn.it/3AYtrsn
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15 months ago, #Facebook said it was buying the popular #GIF search engine #Giphy for about $400 million
Now the acquisition may be a bust, thanks to an #antitrust probe by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority
bit.ly/3z3u8QB
15 months ago, #Facebook said it was buying the popular #GIF search engine #Giphy for about $400 million
Now the acquisition may be a bust, thanks to an #antitrust probe by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority
bit.ly/3z3u8QB
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Meanwhile, was Biden right about #Facebook?
@WiserIn10 #BigTech #SocialMedia #Competition #AntiTrust
bit.ly/3zYfzxs
Meanwhile, was Biden right about #Facebook?
@WiserIn10 #BigTech #SocialMedia #Competition #AntiTrust
bit.ly/3zYfzxs
87/chin #ChinaEcon 🧵
89/chin #China #GDP #Investment collapse (they had reduced 2019 no's to get higher growth rate for 2020) 🧵
Police claim “unlawful assembly” after killing 20 year old young black man, with his mom on the phone and his girlfriend beside him as they drove to visit his older brother and see his new home. Here is the PDF from the @aclu_mn re: protests. #BlackLivesMatter
Minneapolis police knew, or should have known, the killing of a young black man stopped in his vehicle, will result in protests. The police should have been prepared for protests and de-escalated it. Journalists have been reporting that police officers are quitting the “force”
because of fear of danger after the George Floyd trial outcome. Therefore, they knew of the repercussions of killing, wrongfully, a young black man. #EnoughIsEnough #StopSystemicRacism
