Market concentration → Less competition for customers → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at 70-year high → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More political power for corporations and the rich.
And there you have it.
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So let me get this straight: corporate profits hit record highs last year, but corporations are still jacking up prices on consumers in the name of inflation?
I graduated from a state school that cost $50 a semester. Every person in America should be able to go to college without being crushed by student debt.
@POTUS should #CancelStudentDebt.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the so-called "party of free speech" is trying to ban students and teachers from discussing sexual orientation, gender identity, or America's history of racism?
The CBO just conducted a report on single-payer health care. Here’s what they found:
A government-sponsored health care system would boost the economy, help workers, and increase longevity.
These are not progressives. These are the findings of a Republican-led federal agency.
It should go without saying that there can be no “both sides” for voting rights. Making it easier for more people to vote - a civic good. Making it harder to vote, and targeting certain populations - a grave threat to democracy.
Since I left Russia in 2014, it is absolutely shocking how many businesspeople, academics, journalists, politicians, lawyers, NGOs leaders I used to know there who are now dead, in prison, or in exile. Simply shocking. THREAD 1/
PSA: If you allow people to vote with a handgun permit but not a state-university issued ID, you don't actually care about "protecting elections," you care about suppressing the votes of people who disagree with you.