So Ed was shocked I tell you

[nadinbrzezinski]

that a transnational company had the power, apparently, to tell the US of A to go suck on an egg. Guess what folks, perhaps now people will realize the power of transnational corporations and why there is a problem with them. Chiefly why they need to be broken down into actual competitive units, you know capitalism... not what we have these days.

Ah corporatism alive and well in the United States...

[DrDan]

1. more than "alive and well in the U.S." . . . more like "alive and ruling the U.S."

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Actually OECD economies

one, you can contain... a ruling ideology... that is another story.

Now the irony of a BRITISH company teaching this lesson to working class Muricans is not lost on me... anybody up for tea? I mean that in the historic sense and the sons of liberty context.

[Subdivisions]

2. Well, what do you propose we do to break up what we have these days? n/t

[aquart]

3. You say "competitive units" I say bite size bits.

Is there no knight of great courage and honor to slay this fire-breathing dragon?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It will take, in the US, dusting off the Sherman Anti Trust Act

and actually enforcing it... hey Wally Mart... know what I mean.

[aquart]

12. It still exists? What musty box can I find it in?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. It has never been repealed

so technically it is still in the damn books... I wonder if a group of citizens could sue to get it implemented though.

[dbonds]

4. Unrec crew got that one fast. I recced you and net was still 0

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I got "fans"

and I am not bashful 'bout it.

:hi:

[WeDidIt]

8. I will absolutely support breaking these things up.

As somebody with intimate experience in multi-national corporations of various sizes, all efficiencies of scale are lost at about the 10,000 employee level. That should be the outside largest any corporation is allowed to become.

[tridim]

9. Brawndo.

Mike Judge knows what's up.

[havocmom]

10. Soverign nations no longer exist, save as props in the theater of global PR

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. You and I know that

the age of Metternich is over. But perhaps this will wake the rest of the folks up.

I don;t know if you ever read cyberpunk fiction, but I think Gibson was WAY AHEAD of the power curve.

[autorank]

14. k*r Short and sweet

It's all about The Money Party, that bipartisan wrecking crew that screws us all, every day.
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