> “Seed, chemicals or fertilizer, it’s all in the hands of a few companies that are the only game in town. You want to fix farming? Start a federal investigation on those big companies. Booming quarterly earnings and big stock dividends make no sense when farmers can’t pinch a penny.”

It's not just AG, it's every single industry today. It's obviously the result of corruption among elected officials and it's a vicious cycle... who finance these candidates political careers? Nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds them... Corruption is always done at the expense of everybody else...

At least in IT, we've got open source software (but not much open source hardware). Imagine a world, where every single IT company would depend on Windows thus Microsoft...

Tech has the absolute worst price gouging of any industry. The profit margins are totally insane.

People complain about Kroger with a 1% margin, if only they knew who was actually bending them over.

I cannot comprehend the style how politician campaigns are funded in US. Especially corporate sponsorship of politicians. It basically seems as an ordinary corruption to me.

We don't need to imagine, it was actually the case not that long ago, and for the most part still is. The MO of corporations is to just bend over when a Microsoft rep walks into the room.