“This generation will not be defined by its great games or incredible tech, but rather by corporate greed, mismanagement, and anti-consumer practices.”
Nailed it
This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.
Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.
Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.
This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.
Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer
Young people may not know this but there was a time when the internet had thousands of quirky, informative websites, when you could spend hours browsing and come away smarter rather than dumber. We have seen a wonderful thing destroyed in our lifetimes.
In 1971, Michael Caine fell in love with Shakira Baksh after seeing her for just 8 seconds in a TV ad.
Convinced she lived in Brazil, he was ready to fly there, only to learn she was in London. She rejected him 10 times before finally agreeing to dinner... where he "fell in love in eight minutes."
He quit alcohol and cigarettes for her. Married since 1973, they remain one of Hollywood's strongest couples in 2025.
Crazy how Trump fucked the economy so bad he said “we’re not releasing monthly job numbers anymore” and the broad media ecosystem has just let him get away with it