Everything is heavily subsidized by socializing the losses and deflation of buying power for the average person.

Corporations demanding payment for everything at whatever margin they want is little different than taxation without representation and local cops shaking people down for money at random; just different legal semantics

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teiferer an hour ago | parent [-]

The representation is you yourself by voting with where your money goes. At least in a market with competition.

Without competition you are talking about a monopoly and it is your government that is responsible for mitigating its effects. The government that you elected.

The mechanisms are all there, they just need to be used+embraced.

	▲	p00ki3 a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I know how the American civil religion gospel goes; don't patronize There is inherently competition with entropy and just getting ourselves out of bed to deal with everything Corporations and brands and tax codes are just culture war distractions on top of the raw physical competition; middle ages like words of power The competition is with the physics that binds us to Earth; does it? Or are we just to distracted by rhetorical competition between legal constructs to embrace the levers of science Rhetorical competition wrt to markets type blather is only seeking internal consistency with an arbitrary rhetorical framework. Not pushing the boundaries of engineering based on science. Yall can have AI agents simulate Bloomberg terminals so actual physical scientists can focus on the necessities ground truth work you take for granted