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Trillion dollar companies: the Apple empire and concentrated markets : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 9/8/2018

The converse is claimed to be true: that concentration, oligopolistic power, and strings pulled by a few players is the way to keep innovation alive.

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I'm pretty sure I mostly agree with Galloway. And these behemoths, need to be broken up and renvented as employee-owned competing co-ops!

And verily the only way of reimposing capitalism's cornerstone, free and fair competition!

Problem is alleged capitalistic, democratic, (witless gutless) government, who like Putin's puppet, roll over and beg for a tummy rub, when in the same room as so much egoistic and unrestrainable power!

And if it's the only way? Taxed beyond commercial endurance until they comply!?

Co-ops, the only private enterprise, free-market business model to survive the great depression mostly intact! And because they're also the most cost-effective and inherently efficient/productive!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:11:26 PM
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Interestingly the incompetent, who could never launch & run a corner store, hate the fact that some can launch & build billion dollar & even trillion dollar businesses. They hate even more that some get rich doing just that.

So they invent some reason for the large business to be broken up & given to them & their incompetent mates.

The politics of envy are very much alive & thriving in this not very brave new society of ours.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 9 August 2018 1:22:56 PM
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Run several business, earned a quid.

Not Jealous of something TOO BIG TO FAIL! JUST RIGHTLY CONCERNED THOSE ENTERPRISES THAT AVOID FAIR AND REASONABLE TAX, EXPECT JOE PUBLIC TO PAY THE TAB AND FOR ALL THAT!

HAVE NO DISCERNABLE MORAL COMPASS IN THEIR PROFIT IS KING, BUSINESS OPERATIONS?

HOARD/CONCENTRATE OUR FINITE RESOURCES IN FEWER AND FEWER HANDS, PRICE GOUGE, REPATRIATE AND OR PRIVATISE THE PROFIT! SOCIALIZE THEIR LOSSES!

BECOME SO BIG AND POWERFUL IN UNREGULATED SPACE THEY FORCE MUM AND DAD ENTERPRISE TO THE WALL AND BEYOND, AND ARE MINDLESSLY LIKED/DEFENDED BY RESIDENT(I'M Ok) POTATO HEAD.

MICROSOFT STARTED OUT IN A GARAGE AS A TINY CO-OP AND COULD HAVE EASILY STAYED THAT WAY.

AND A FAR BETTER MORE SERVICE ORIENTED ENTERPRISE THAN THE PRIVATIZED GLOBAL CONGLOMERATE IT HAS SINCE BECOME!

THAT ALWAYS PUTS PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 9 August 2018 4:53:25 PM
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You forget that many of these companies started in someone's garage such as Apple and Hewlett Packard.

For most of these companies alternatives exist, so breaking them up would be redundant.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Friday, 10 August 2018 10:20:34 AM
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Yes lets force the breakup of any company someone doesn't like.

We once had a large brilliant automotive engineering company. They could & did make most things for the automotive industry, in a dozen divisions. They were profitable too. So profitable that they could afford a developmental department, where they developed new products using new materials.

In a number of things they led the world. So good were they that they designed, built & developed an engine that won 2 Formula 1 world championships, in Brabham cars.

Then some smarties got control of the company, & broke it up. Each division was sold off in a bottom of the harbour scheme, making the smarties a lot of money, much more then the total company could bring.

So now we have a chain of spare parts stores, instead of a great innovative company. Each of the division a separate company with it's own board & management structure, eating the profits that once went to shareholders, & we could no more build an F1 championship winning engine, than send a rocket to the moon.

Yes a great idea. Lets break up all large companies. Why, Alan doesn't like them.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 10 August 2018 12:10:38 PM
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Would we get the same remarks if these companies were australian ?
Posted by individual, Sunday, 12 August 2018 6:17:14 AM
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