• iocase@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    80% of all grocery sales go to one company

    Regulated for by the government of Canada

    And before people get angry assuming I’m against regulations I’m not, they’re just used as a weapon by Plutocrats to protect their own private kingdoms

    In Canada we have:

    2 grocery store parent companies

    5 banks

    2 railroads

    2 telecos

    1 power authority per province (in my province it’s a crown corp which is fantastic. Their shareholders are rate paying citizens not private shareholders)

    3 shipping companies

    What is it for car parent companies now? 3ish?

    1 gas provider per province

    All of our oil and gas companies are American except for 3

    The only competition is among coffee shops and bistros, and even then the biggest chains are owned by 3 companies.

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      None of the things listed should be run by private corporations at all.

      We don’t need competition and innovation in these spaces. We don’t need 35 different kinds of chicken sandwich. We don’t need “options” for gas and electric rates.

      We need safe, abundant, high quality, environmentally conscious essential goods and services, delivered AT OR BELOW the cost required to produce and deliver them at scale.

      Make it all public ownership.

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        Big fucking agree!

        These are all natural monopolies. Massive, incomprehensible unbelievable amounts of money need to be invested to make a network, and then running the next train, or adding a new gas or power customer is peanuts.

        Any time suggesting “hey, maybe we should build an entirely separate system so we can compete” results in people bringing you in for a forced psych eval, you’re talking about a natural monopoly.

        It’s illogical to duplicate the network so “pRiVaTe CoMpEtItIoN” now has to negotiate common carrier agreements and the admin overhead makes it twice (sometimes 10X) more expensive than just one crown corporation owning the entire fucking thing!

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          12 days ago

          You get ethically and sustainably raised organic chicken. Make whatever sandwich you want with that.