There are natural monopolies, too: things like water and electricity utilities

Well sometimes in their pursuit of making money, their interests coincidentally align with those of the public and they make the world a better place as a result.

And this happens purely by chance, and always temporarily. As soon as it is financially better for them to throw you to the wolves that’s what they’ll do next

It’s only dystopia for the common working people but a paradise for them filthy billionaires

there are a lot of evil companies

All of them, as long as their only reason to exist is to chase profit above anything else

So, at what age do you think someone becomes a man?

My take is that you’re a full adult when your pre-frontal cortex is fully formed, which happens at around 25 years of age

I wish the simpleton that argued with me the other day that Delcy wasn’t a traitor showed up. Well, here you go, do you need more proof, sucker?

Except in that story, humanity rolled back to feudalism with “great houses” of rich families in charge

But we’re almost there. There are already a “House of Bezos”, a “House of Gates”, a “House of Musk”. The only thing they lack compared to the original history are their own atomic arsenal

Descartes Voltaire

You mean the one that immediately went on state tv to tell the people she was not the real leader

I mean the one that is letting ExxonMobil return to Venezuela after having all their properties seizured by Chavez. I mean the one that the White House just recently told prosecutors that she should not be targeted by them anymore.

and that Venezuela and america are enemies

If she really meant that all americans in Venezuelan soil should have been exiled or jailed the next day after Maduro’s kidnapping. Even if that meant war. In fact, if another country seized my president from my own country, that would have meant war, no ifs or buts.

Maybe this POS is just starting to fear for his life if this goes on

But the Dems and maga are the same

the only difference between those two turds is the color, they even smell the same

turns out you don’t need to formally invade to control another country, you just have to install a traitor friend into power… which the US definitely did in Venezuela, btw

wow that takes me back

This should spook the hell of anyone still playing anything that relies on that. Imagine have that kind of malware running in your system, with kernel-level priviledges, that could simply fuck up your hardware if it thinks you might be cheating.

Billionaires became billionaires by ruining the life of dozens of thousands of people each. They should have plenty of time to regret that before their end, that’s my take

Not a fan of FPS. I have played my fair share of them when I was a teenager since it’s all my friends would play, but today I simply can’t stand any of them anymore

Gambling is for conning people bad at math exploiting people with poor impulse control

and gambling addiction is a serious issue that can’t be dismissed so easily

Too humane. They should suffer for many, many years isolated in a filthy jail cell first

“You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

well, in the USA this is probably true, all the money would be diverted into more military spending or tax breaks for stupid filthy rich people

This feels a little like a “take this great thing and find something to complain about”.

the “perfect” is the enemy of “good enough”