Up until shortly after the break up of AT&T I would say that boycotting was a viable alternative. Now with so many companies being owned by so few corporations, holding companies, and other countries...there are so few choices of suppliers as most are protected by lack of competition. Most persons don't realize that fact. Boycott Pepsi t…
Up until shortly after the break up of AT&T I would say that boycotting was a viable alternative. Now with so many companies being owned by so few corporations, holding companies, and other countries...there are so few choices of suppliers as most are protected by lack of competition. Most persons don't realize that fact. Boycott Pepsi then google who Pepsi owns and you get a good picture of the problem. Rayovac, MTD, the country is littered with companies that have merged with others but retained their original names. It is even more protected when looking at shareholders. Berkshire owns shares in almost everything viable. Amazon is another example...those companies they don't own they have a habit of copying.
One possible solution...Anti trust regulations and rulings with caps on value related to specific ownership, needs to be established along with separation of government, the private and business sector with serious enforcement and penalties that are directly levied on any individuals involved. This program can be overseen by committees made up of individuals with unbiased integrity...other than biased members of the Supreme Court. Of course finding persons of integrity could be the biggest hurdle?
Up until shortly after the break up of AT&T I would say that boycotting was a viable alternative. Now with so many companies being owned by so few corporations, holding companies, and other countries...there are so few choices of suppliers as most are protected by lack of competition. Most persons don't realize that fact. Boycott Pepsi then google who Pepsi owns and you get a good picture of the problem. Rayovac, MTD, the country is littered with companies that have merged with others but retained their original names. It is even more protected when looking at shareholders. Berkshire owns shares in almost everything viable. Amazon is another example...those companies they don't own they have a habit of copying.
One possible solution...Anti trust regulations and rulings with caps on value related to specific ownership, needs to be established along with separation of government, the private and business sector with serious enforcement and penalties that are directly levied on any individuals involved. This program can be overseen by committees made up of individuals with unbiased integrity...other than biased members of the Supreme Court. Of course finding persons of integrity could be the biggest hurdle?
I like the cut of your jib. Agreed! Anti trust regulations must be applied, the sooner the better.