Nice touch of intrigue. You're really committed to your craft 😮

Right. Caught in a door. Are you okay? Blink twice if you need help.

I think you mean it looks like that from... SMASHING that LIKE Button!

That just happened to Trixie Mattel too. Small KZfaqr world lol.

You shouldn't do that, it hurts.

Underrated comment.

And that is the problem. It's a snake eating it's own tail.

I was going to comment something similar, the biggest issue is people believing that they too will one day be billionaires and disrupt industries so they don't want the rules to change. unbeknownst to them that the chances of that actually happening are close to 0.

@@allthingstoallmen8912 And the very rules they don't wanna change make sure that's the case. Very sad.

I fucking loved this comment. As I’m guilty. And I never thought of it this way.

It's an edge I don't exactly remember from ARE, but I'm happy to see it.

I thought they were besties.

Favorite quote in the video, tbh 😂 gotta make sure he doesn't sound like a weak Presi- I mean, KZfaq content creator 😃

I promise you I never will

Or a Yemeni wedding! 😂

While this is true, we also shouldn’t forget our local businesses and need to give them more business when we can. Farmers Markets and other locally owned businesses are a way to make a real difference in supporting real people rather than huge soulless companies. It does make a difference because your business makes a difference for them.

Just like George Carlin along with many others have been saying it😂

What makes it even scarier is how people like to hate on socialism or communism by bringing up (the myth) that you only get to purchase ONE type of product and if you want alternatives you're SOL. It's shocking how often the lived reality of capitalism is projected onto other -isms to present them as evil.

Exactly! It isn't just shopping either, it's *everything*. Think about the conversations you see online about *anything*. Do the opinions you see being expressed seem.. natural? Like the person making it, of their own volition without any outside influence, chose to get online and start shilling for or demonizing whatever side of whatever subject? It's mass hysteria. Hell, something even bigger than that.

@@gemixx8365ding ding dingggg

I had the same thought in my classes. I looked at that era of history and immediately went wait.... aren't there like 3 oil companies now? What happened to the trust busting? The gilded age is playing out again

Citizens United v. FEC and prior SCOTUS cases basically gave corporations a way to legally bribe politicians. Sadly, they often buy both parties, which is why they're both extremely pro-corporate and support mergers like that. Sure, the GOP is worse, but that's beside the point. The corruption is so extreme we have wealth inequality we haven't seen since the gilded age, all while the wealthiest get everything.

The judges are gifted luxury vacations, and that should be illegal

2 things: a) the idea that corporations only exist for the benefit of shareholders; b) the idea that government shouldn't regulate how corporations go about a). Basically, it's all Ronald Reagan's fault.

because the government and corporations (which are also governments) are colluding.

Ew, fuck Disney lol.

Ikr that old warp zone video was looked at as comedy but it terrified me

I just want a good fantastic four movie.

And Disney has a lot of control/impact on theatres and review websites too, Disney adults are kinda scary

there are dozends of great indi games that you can play for hundreds of hours each most cost about ~20 bucks Why would I bother with the AAA garbage when I can have 2-3 nice games for the same price? same goes with movies - you try to ignore that there are already tens of thousands of movies out there - go and watch the top 1,000 of imdb and come back and complain later when you are done with that

it's worth emphasizing how you win. you can ONLY win, when you are the only one left. when all wealth on the board has been consolidated to a single person's pocket. it only ends when there is no one left, and the monopolist is the only man standing. i hate how much of Monopoly's political commentary is lost today. fuck, even the game Monopoly is owned by a monopolist company now.

@@DonoGaming That was literally the purpose behind the creation of the game. To make people hate capitalism. Because it can only have the one outcome.

It's better if you don't build hotels (they were added in a later version of the game). You can just max out your houses, and if the supply of 32 houses runs out nobody can build anymore. It's in the rules and called a 'housing shortage'. So that's 8 full properties, if you have 1-2 monopolies that's how you really win.

>.> I thought you won by destroying the housing market, and only ever leasing rooms at inflated prices, thus assuring steady income, an appreciating portfolio of investments, and force the poor into ever shrinking in area, always growing in population, which cues up room for the expansion! Naturally, I've yet to see this expansion to monopoly due to being reclusive and poor, but no doubt there's private prisons, broken window policing, and a systemic inability to notice white collar crime is sold to the public at great societal expense. The hatred is just a cool bonus on the side. ..until the next expansion, anyway, where we plan on funneling all of political thought into one of two major brands, so people can donate for change, still get tossed into ghettos, pay exorbitant prices for basic necessities, and are subjected to increasing amounts of warrantless scrutiny and imprisonment. Or, you can donate to the other party, and get pretty much the same thing! We'll have two addition parties for the kiddos, where they donate all they want, their votes don't count, /and/ they get blamed if the wrong person wins an election. 'cause as Hasbro has said, there's just not enough microtransactions in table top gaming, and Parker Bros is loving that idea. (So, obviously, they're going to steal it. We're talking about Monopoly, after all! It's a nod to a colorful history, not theft, you know. ^.^)

@@stratius Frick, why couldn't I see this comment before going all tongue in cheek? I could have had more lore. Also. >.> I just figured we lost sufficient houses, so we always just had stand-ins. M&Ms, buttons, kibbles, whatever was handy.

In theory, yes. The problem is that many are unable to do that. Once you have control of enough of a market, it becomes basically impossible to mount a meaningful resistance.

@@too1leasy Are you expecting Taylor Swift to... start building stadiums?

Maybe as maybe but I don't see what that has to do with corporate consolidation.

This is a very good analysis and point 💯

@@SamiiYou ...corporate consolidation is done by millionaires. So people who see themselves as future millionaires don't want to jeopardize their future millions by hobbling corporate power.

not really, no one deludes themself into believing that they're going to be millionaires. Its more like people believe that the millionaires and billionaires deserve what they get and need the money because they "worked harder". In what way is going to meetings 8 hours a day harder then the 100 hour work week that game devs need to put themselves through.

theres a quote "don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor"

why do you think age old capitalism is still alive and thriving. Working doesn't mean fair.

Regulate me harder, daddy

neolibs and republicans suck so much. they're one and the same, only caring about shareholders, not their constituents who put them in the places of power they use for personal gain rather than helping further the Great American Experiment.

I'd argue that it wasn't easy. It just takes time and money; the two things the mega rich have ample amounts of

I hope you felt that way when 2 weeks turned into 2 years and ruined everything

People cared when it happened to Taylor Swift because that's when they learned about it

@@jackdavinci it's been going on for 30 years

@@dAPERize Not sure what your point is? I'm just wondering why you think it's remarkable that people caring about an issue starts trending after it gets widely publicized.

@@jackdavinci are you lost? People only care when it's a ⚪ woman

@@dAPERizethere were plenty of famous white singers who got screwed Ticketmaster long before Taylor Swift. I wouldn't be surprised if her whiteness was one factor in why the media picked up on her particular battle along with her social media popularity - I'm not debating that. What I'm saying is that the reason it trended in general awareness is because it was made newsworthy. And the reason I'm bringing it up is that is because I see a lot of people commenting on various different issues besides this one, and the idea of "well why did nobody care about this thing before now?" and I find it strange that people keep ignoring the obvious reason - things trend when the media covers them, and then they reach greater awareness and people start talking about it. I'm sure race factors into a lot of shady shit that goes on in the music industry but in this particular case I think the major factor is just that it's topical. I suspect a major secondary factor might be that people were sort of peripherally aware of the Ticketmaster issue but assumed there was nothing regular people could do about it until Taylor made a stink about it. Now you could say tho that obviously part of the reason why people got hope that she might be able to do something is because she has clout, and part of her clout comes from white privilege, that's fair. But I don't think people in general were like "oh no they picked on a white girl this time, we can't have that!"

I'm sorry did you not watch the video? Disney buying up everything is bad for everyone

Billionaires are still mortal. Everyone refuses to accept that there is ONLY ONE solution to tyranny.

And an authoritarian economy is way worse..🤦‍♀️ As government is meant to be a countries management group for the security & welfare of the peoples in that country.. So their rules/laws etc are, by definition, for you.. Whereas the capitalism economy is by definition, each company purposely fighting against 'everyone's' welfare in place of their own monetary gain.. I simply don't get how Americans have fallen for the line, that old chestnut .. 🥸 That if you restrict government regulations, that will make a better life for You.. 🤦‍♀️ Come on.. The only people that benefits ( in the long run ) is the big companies trying to take more than their fair share from every one of Your pockets, personally.. Which should you have more faith in ? It seems people have short memories, get distracted & don't want to remember that Power corrupts & Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.. 🥲☮️🌏

really? not authoritarian? why would they spend money getting rioters out of jail if they weren't enforcing voting? (if that sounds insane to you, you haven't done your research)

plutocracy

The Federal Mafia fronts for the "Families" in the 0.10%. We are in a fascist industrial state whereby big money is married to the federal government ( the original and fundamental definition of the word fascist created by Giovanni Gentile working for/with Benito Mussolini) controlling all aspects of Our lives. Lives. "Why it's just corporate policy not something illegal) Thanks to things like Citizen United which allows us to pour untold amounts of dark money into the Candidates that they want in the system, because they will repay the favor by being completely in their favor in renderings of any laws enacted). They have total control over what we see what we hear, What's in the water what's in the air And ding! ding! ding! ding!.. Where do you have access to health care to combat the problems that all this toxic s*** that they allowed to exist or not. And even then a lot of Health Care you get today does not actually cure the problem it just treats the symptom. Look at how much money they lose if they actually helped people stay well and healthy. History has proven that when too few people control all the money at all the resources life is just a giant sewer outside of the castle.

I believe Leverage directly mentioned this problem in one of their episodes...

Right, those folks laid off can’t even get a job in their chosen industry if the competition has been crushed.

Is that what happened when Facebook, Google and Amazon dropped thousands of tech jobs?

The system is working exactly as designed.

Which is also part of what makes American health insurance so inefficient.

What happened? Never followed that show myself..

Hopefully the results of ticketmaster's debacle is a step towards that. What's really disheartening, though, is hearing people in my state complain about ALL this... but they all keep elected the same people who would rather have a merger yes man in the FTC than who Biden put in.

Disney needs split up

@@icedirt9658yeah actually I could do with less of that fuking mouse.

@@icedirt9658 Disney is one of those companies where you look up what they own and you're exhausted by the time you get to the end of running down the entire list. I just looked it up and thought "Holy crap this is a TON of stuff" and then it went "And that's just the US side!"

We need FCC chief Undead Teddy Roosevelt

I hate that I understand this meme. You reminded me that I spend way too much time online.

Wow, a Morbius meme that actually made me chuckle.

the economic system of all time

Go Go Monopoly Rangers!!!

That's the end goal of capitalism. To possess all of the capital.

awwwww he sounds really nice 😊

This is not the place for that.

Ouch.

I went through law school and in tax law we learned that it is better for large corporations to not pay their taxes and use a number of stalling techniques to get to the statute of limitations on paying those taxes, so....yeah, the system is very much rigged. (Don't try this at home, kids, its only for big corps)

The number of companies they own is genuinely bone chilling.

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I love Defunctland for all his deep dives and I remember one video where he went into that period where there was almost no more Dinny. Crazy to think of now that they own everything.

Now they are so big and gone woke they might be putting themselves out of business. Not much of a business model.

@@sbyrstall They are nowhere near putting themselves out of business unless someone blows up Disney World. The issue currently is that during a recession, investors can more about profits over growth metrics and streaming services are a loss-leader. "Wokeness" hasn't even really cost them that much, moreso the Disney Parks shenanigans like the awful Star Wars hotel) and making so many of their Disney+ shows exclusive instead of trying to spread around to other networks.

The irony when in the beginning of the video he is talking about having to do just that.

@@themaindragon Yea, a lot of KZfaqrs are talking about that new rule.

As said a thousand times ;) or he joins HBO like bill Maher or John Oliver… say what u want when u want fu…ers 😂 like John’s ex - ongoing business daddy joke 😅😂😂

Google is also a giant media company.

#TryVeganPlease #TryVeganPlease #TryVeganPlease #TryVeganPlease

As a native of Arkansas, a plantation state known for rimming Trump's ass 24/7, I can assure you that quitting or cutting your wrist would be preferable to moving here.

@@davidtaliaferro I do live here haha if it weren't for family ties my wife and I would already be gone

Everyone should just leave the company, they couldn't run without their employees. Another catch 22 trap. People too afraid to stand up to their oppressor.

@@marcohavokkhaos If only "just leaving your job" was easy, not everyone can just quit their job on at the drop of a hat like that. Its basically designed into capitalism, but it is a reality.

@@marcohavokkhaos The sad thing is, the government and every other business has made this not the case. Wherever you go, you're not going to make enough to be comfortable because we've allowed the monopolies to buy out every industry and politician. For example, in the 80's, men aged 18-35 made over $1,000/week on average, and now 40 years later that same agre group makes around $800/week. That is not good at all. Even if prices stayed the exact same as in the 80's, that would be bad for us. Guess what, the prices are much higher than what they were in the 80's, or even from just a decade ago. The US is becoming a third world country. More than 50% make less than 50k, and in most cities 50k will barely let you live comfortably and save, and in many cities, that's impossible to live off of without being in the hood. Your choice is to leave that company and go to another that will pay you around the same, which is just not enough. Any teenager with a job could buy a house in the 70's if he saved for a couple years. Now we're lucky to ever own a house or land.

Yes it was a great episode! Ticket master is the worse... Ruined an entire amazing industry 🙄

@@barbaralachance5836 And now only the ultra-rich can afford the tickets, and Ticketmaster *still* makes hoards of money off them.

Of course! "Ticketmonster"!

Adam had an episode called "Adam Ruins Music" and ticketmaster was one of their subjects

Wait til you learn about Nestle

That's like when I worked for Macys in the mattress department, and discovered that Serta and Beautyrest - the two biggest US "competitors" were both owned by the same fucking company.

@rizalboy most of its subsidiaries arent

@@colleenroberts8202 oh im learnt, can fuckin shop without buying from just like three different corps

@@z-beeblebrox don’t you just love how they do that shit

what progressives? there are none and when one shows up they are cheated out or corrupted

What I don't get is... America doesn't have anti-monopoly laws?? I'm asking because here, in Europe, there are rules that merges need to follow, like... if X company merges with Y, they can't have more than Z% of the market together, etc. I worked in such a company, and they needed to sell certain parts of the companies in order to be able to do so.

​@@ana-mariailie5574we in fact do have anti-monopoly laws. In the US, those who make/enforce laws are not subject tp them.

​​@@ana-mariailie5574We do, we just also blatantly ignore them these days.

They are not changing America's antitrust policies. The billionaire controlled media is allowing some conversation to take place. They *might* allow one company to be thrown under the bus. But they will not allow a political movement to build and succeed at the polls.

LNE made a mistake they screwed over a major talent.

I fucking wish. Swifties are garbage but if they could help bring back antitrust, I'd be on board. They're doing jack shit about it though.

is that why they lost their case?

I'm still not going to hold my breath, this country is a joke.

I mean hasn't Ticketmaster had basically a monopoly since the early 90's? Pearl Jam tried to take a stand against them and fell off the map for years because they couldn't find places to play.

Because you had to either buy them at the box office or win them on the radio. Making ticket demand low and purchasing predictable. Now, you can buy them at will at your convince whenever you want. In order to facilitate this demand. Services like ticket master has to buy up huge blocks of tickets. Coupled with inflation, it drives up the price of tickets. This is literally the cost of everyone having access to see a show/buy a ticket all the time. You're welcome.

Back when all the best rock bands were out 70's 80's I went too the many many shows for 7 to 8 dollars a ticket back in the great old days! I went to a lot of the great bands concerts! Have not see one since they went to 30 worthless dollars a ticket~ I can't become one of them with my mastery of guitar play like no other! Because I can't get the money to do it in ticket prices! The reason the best bands are no more~The crook'$ out priced the future real musicians! The reason we don't have real musicians,{{{ Instrumentalists }}} with real instruments real musicians. And of the new ones anymore After the 90's~ That went from thousands of them to now just a few of them!~ To give us no talent pop & rap! With all the fake music tones & fake auto~tuned singers, you get with today bogus so-called music!~ That is not!

you must be old like me

They REALLY pulled a trick convincing people that they were "making things modern and convenient" when theyre openly just trying to fleece people to an unimaginable degree

Happened to me in 2015. Learned to ride it out because you have no control over it… even told the post-merger CEO at my new job that. So far he’s been a decent guy that treats employees well and is honest with us… and it’s been almost 3 years.

So you are saying you are dead weight with few skills?

I heard the "nothing is changing" lie before. I and many others left before the worst of it. We saw the writing on the wall

You're operating under the assumption that the people who run businesses act rationally to secure the interests of the business AKA that they aren't pillagers and tyrants.@@thumper84

Lesson: if someone starts their reply with 'so you're saying' or similar, chances are really high that what follows is nothing of value.

Yeah, my 7 year old who was sitting next to me really enjoyed it... no corporate merger education for him today I guess 😕

​@@jtlangonedude needs to know this. Why get worked up over words?

​@@jtlangoneif your kid cant handle cuss words at 7 says way more about you than Adam choosing to cuss in an unmonetized video

And it's not a all at once process. It's been slowly and surely becoming the state since the start of the country. It's almost done too 😤

Only one thing though, they don't want to fully become the state, they just want all of the control and none of the responsibility, the latter of which they'll happily leave with what is simply a hollowed out shell if they have their way. After all, why would corporations want to have to spend their own money to maintain roads and required public services?

If you grow infinitely you will eventually have to consume the world. There's no other choice, it's not even evil, nor good, because those aren't options anymore. You grow. Or you die. Full stop.

No he's just paraphrasing Marx

FUN FACT! Capitalism is NOT LEGAL under current american laws. (But who ya gonna call? The Robber Barons' KKKops???) Capitalism is SYSTEMIC FRAUD, systemic malpractice, conspiracy, theft, and soooo much more. (It's based on insane lies galore. EX: "Competition lowers prices and improves quality!" is like "protect & serve"! You just Repeat The Lie Repeat The Lie like Officer Hitler taught us, so the public just accepts it. Competition BALLOONS prices and it must: TWO CEOs are going to be paid a lot more than ONE PUBLIC SERVANT is. POTUS makes $440,000 a YEAR!! If his job were Capitalism (instead of socialism as it is now), his pay would be $40 MILLION a year.....coming out of our pockets!) (FDNY CEO makes like $300,000 a year. Energy CEO in NH alone makes $6 million a year! Does NO work! There are a thousand BANK CEOs in America! ALL that excess and fat!) (PEPSI and COKE spend billion$ per year ADVERTISING their product. The socialized FDNY spends ZERO dollars per century!) AND EVERYONE MUST LEARN WHAT "FRAUD" IS, cuz that's the obvious statute for each and every lie by our govt and press. "We can't get George Santos out of Congress!" YES YOU CAN, if you pressure the cops and D.A.s to do their ONE JOB, and arrest GS for systemic FRAUD. ANY DECEPTION (even omission!) FOR MONETARY GAIN (Money, a job, etc) IS FELONY FRAUD. It's a CRIME when a politician breaks their campaign promise, for instance. But they don't want the public knowing this.

That is a huge problem that I never thought of in those terms. Thanks for pointing it out. My husband and I are mechanically minded and choose to repair as much as possible. We are transitioning to "stupid" devices in as many areas as possible because we are tired of watching high dollar goods break as soon as the warranty expires with no repair options.

This is the biggest issue imo. We live in a throw away world anymore. Products designed to break after a few years to force people to purchase new products because it's the most profitable option. You don't make much when you sell one and the owner can repair through their lifetime. I also wonder why people so concerned about the environment don't force this issue more. I'm not a green freak, but it'd be more environmentally sustainable to produce less and allow people to repair. Rather than throwing away products to replace. It's waste waste when you do it like that. But what do I know.

Tied into this is also the built in expiration date on many high and mid level items: products are designed to require replacing rather than being designed to last. You never get free lifetime guarantees on products now. And similar to above are design choices that make items unviable to repair such as welding screw fittings... the benefit of strength is usually negligible but makes it almost impossible to replace a part because you'd have to drill it out or angle-grind the screw heads!

“right to repair” is literally always there because you have the product in your hand and parts can be made or sourced. Companies shouldn’t have to warranty whatever frankenstein mess you make when you try to repair electronics.

Gilm@@lifeb4game Alexande of r nevsky

Thing about crime is that you usually don't want to get caught. And attacking Monopolies leads to that usually

Gaming companies get hit constantly, but I guess that's what happens when you piss off a tech savvy consumer base.

Time for someone to go Mr. Robot on their asses.

@@meoff7602 So Taylor swift fans need to put down the hair brushes and pick up the school books, then they too could hack ticketmaster

@@fisharepeopletoo9653 yes, if only those silly little women put down their hairbrushes and read a textbook!!

Remember when we would only use the word oligarch to describe russian aholes?

facts

It's sad times when standing up to a few people is called gutsy

But the oligarchs are now way too heavily entrenched, fortified and defended, like Israel vs. the Palestinians. They have learned from history, like the Borg adapting to Starfleet's weapons.

Using KZfaq helps the oligarchs more. He should look into self hosting to truly stick it to them

still 21 though.

You have the benefit of being a member of the largest age group of voters, and access to better information. The youth in Montana joined together and sued their state government for violating Montana's constitution (it requires being good stewards and taking care of the environment. DAPL was the opposite of that). Global groups of youth are going en masse to the World Health Organization and the United Nations, to sue in global courts over the arms race and lack of action to reduce the climate crisis. Youth in the US have been organizing marches at the UN building in NYC regarding human rights violations and genocidal policies (paper genocide) against Native Americans. It sucks that you have not had a single year where a minimum of 1, and frequently up to 7, "once in a lifetime" events have not happened. You, and everyone under the age of 25 has been hardened by fire. In response, the most Mutual Aid groups have been formed over the past 5 years. More people under the age of 30 are getting involved in politics, boycotts, and just generally building an alternative system that is so far superior, it makes this one obsolete. Why do you think all these anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ, anti-youth laws are being passed? Because these hypocritical old men (and a few women who need to have their card yanked) **KNOW** your generation will outnumber the Baby Boomers in the election next year. You **have** the power. The question is, how many of you will be willing to do the work to motivate your peers, and use the power you have?

its helps that he sounds like a frustrated middle school teacher wrangling a bunch of idiot kids and not adults that are of equal intelligence.

No no conditioned, if you look at who owns Fox News, you’ll see the connections between all the media companies, who choose to report irrelevant social war shit that doesn’t affect anyone but marginalize people, and keeps the attention there. Because if you’re too mad because this specific person did this, then you will never know what happened in Ohio

... Monopoly is more true to life than I ever wanted it to be.

I keep telling people- if you're starving, eat the rich. Your neighbor is too skinny and the rich are too fat to get away.

I think Monopoly is more pro-monopoly, even when you lose you have a good time while you did play (and especially if a lot of people did play and the game lasted a while you do have to at least somewhat respect the winner).

Wait until you learn how the game was originally meant to be played. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obeqe8R7ztuokps.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o-Ble5OUzJjZiKc.html Or read the book: The monopolists : obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game

That gets complicated, because officially ticketmaster opposes ticket scalping. It's generally best to keep reports of corporate falsehoods to areas that are clear cut if those areas are big enough to take them down, because stuff like ticket sellers encouraging the ticket scalping business has been leveraged as a distraction from the major abuses before. You never want your opponent to get a slap on the wrist for 5% of their misdeeds because you mentioned them and they redirected the focus to that 5%, when you could have gotten them for 89% of their misdeeds or whatever the percentage of their worst crime happened to be.

@@edgrimm5862 except now you can sell your own tickets through their marketplace so they 100% have no issues with scalping

Ticket scalping is good. It rations limited resources to those who most powerfully demand them. This is a good thing.

right!!! Like I wanted to get tickets to see Babymetal and Dethklok. though AXS the tickets say $55 for General admission, but all sold out. HOWEVER theres the 'verified resale' bullshit which bumps the price to $180 fucking What the actual fuck

@@coonhound_pharoah no.

Yeah same ":( I couldn't possibly afford to give a liveable wage, it might make my profits be sad"

😂

The only thing capitalism understands is appetite. With an impulse as primitive as that it’s only a matter of time before the only thing left to eat is itself.

Technically that wasn't the capitalism that gave them the good jobs and the good lives, but the result of the New Deal which created certain labor laws and regulated companies in a way that provided the environment for good jobs and having good lives. What we're witnessing now is the result of the erosion of those New Deal era policies and regulations. The capitalism they grew up with was the same, is was only just more tame.

No it's the same capitalism, your parents where born at a higher point in the curve...

@@PastStory The worst part is, that those Monopolies spread and fork the rest of the world as well .. this video should be shown on repeat in every High School instead of Banner Time.

I totally agree. Good point about the net gains.

I always loved the show, was sad when it ended

I feel like KZfaq and whatever comes next will likely be a better alternative to the traditional ways of television …

ARE grew to be a bit too 100-level. This was a bit more raw, and I enjoy it.

@@KerrieM KZfaq ... I mean Google... also tries to monopolize online content.

Exactly why it is so hard to have a revolution on the developed world too

I'm terrified

Notice how KZfaq is demonetizing many of the critical thinkers

this has been how it has always worked throughout history i literally do not know what you are on. People are just more educated about it xd. Not saying its not a bad thing just saying this will not bring any cataclysmic shift in how our society operates, it'll just perpetuate how it already does, which yeah is pretty poorly.

@@jjcoola998 I still remember the moment most of the channels that cover internet news, especially relating KZfaq stuff, all got hit with tons of strikes, shadow bans, and demonetization, and since then penguinz0 is the only one left that still does that kind of thing.

@@RedPandaStanWell, it gets worse when there’s less media platforms. If there’s many smaller media platforms, then there will be more chances for their voice to be heard even if some companies don’t want to show them.

Agreed, best show I ever watched.

It probably got cancelled because, he told too much of the truth, and tv is all about lies.

Because wbd wanted to cancel everything good and wholesome

@@shimonnyman1138it was cause of the rise of skywalker not the AT&T time warner merger, and don’t let any bullshitters tell you otherwise.

@crsh6755 how can a show be canceled.for something that hasn't occurred yet

I would say it depends on your perspective whether it was a failure or a success. The Plannedemic architects are classic serial killers on a global scale-they love the power of the kill, taunting us to try and catch them, then bragging about their deeds when we do. The world is run by psychopaths.

@@beme2032 dude what

For real. I live in Japan now and we have not had nearly the same amount of supply chain issues that the US has had. I can easily go to the store and get eggs, baby formula, and my prescription of concerta without having to worry about it. I visited the US in August and I was shocked to see how bad it's gotten. Shelves were so empty...I only saw that for a few months in 2020 and mostly for masks and hand sanitizer. It's easy to think that your experiences are the same as everyone else's when you don't know anything else but as someone living abroad...Americans are getting screwed over.

@@plursocks you get called a bigot and buzz words for pointing that out in America

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus yep. People say "why do you hate America". Dude. I literally don't. If I did, I would give up and stop talking about it. I know we can do better and I want better for everyone.

I went to a sold out show at LiveNation venue, and it was so packed that I thought, "there's no way this is legal." Looks like I probably was right.

Live Nation does this to small venues ALL THE TIME

You'd probably enjoy the podcast "Marx & Medicine". They have a couple episodes where they cover this exact thing in really excruciatingly fine detail.

So true.

would suck if a government did that, wait a minute

Exactly what our last Liberal Party government in Australia pushed through at a frightening rate, because totally aligns with their capitalist ideology, despite how bad it actually is for the people. Yet our compliant media barely mentioned it.

Omg, I wish that was still true, Taylor's would be so cool!

Which one?

People mention it in passing but it is benefits people with money to invest and inside knowledge

@@jaishu123 probably Sysco

which one?

@@user-jd3gf5xw1x Tyson, though I’ve since left the company

Well, we do have an awful lot of options. All those different flavors of Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Captain Crunch for example. We have oodles and oodles of choices for the mundane things. A M&M for every occasion, practically! Just there's a whole lot less when it comes to things that matter: Broadband, schools, health care, politics, etc. That's how you can grow the cult of choice, even when all the big and most the meaningful choices have been taken off the market. To be fair, though, it's a pretty convincing illusion judging by how many folk still believe in it so fervently.

@@dracodraco1982 Can confirm. My school is stuck in a strict contract with Edgenuity and AcceleratED (or rather, their parent companies), they can't get out of it because they are a fairly recent institution that just barely scrapes by

Doesn’t Daily Show have an opening? Not sure if it’s “bigger” though.

@@melyraps I think that would polarize him greatly.

@@AssGasGottaBlast Yeah, that's a problem, Adam's one of the few people who can get to even the most braindead rightoids out there.

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Jon Stewart and Adam Conover…

Turns out she just had to be oppressed by an entity worth eleven figures, whodathunk?

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter There is a lesson about hierarchies in there if we're willing to look.

@@evanerys Yeah but Kanye West did that and look what happened to him.

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter big fishy eat the small fishy

@@MK_ULTRA420 yikes on bikes dude. Stop defending the person that is a okay with the execution of a race of people. By the way it wouldn't end with the Jews. There is no end to a purity spiral. Fascism consolidates, cuts off a chunk of their base, kills, then repeats until there's only one single person that is pure enough.

Even ruined his fingers he is committed

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Which is especially bad for the people not into that sort of thing.

The reason for your first sentence is that mainstream media is run by monopolistic megacorporations. I also see that as the biggest barrier to this fight; media megacorps convincing people that shit like transgender people or racist tweets are the reason our country (and our environment) are going down the toilet, rather than corporate consolidation of power. But I’m glad to hear there are some glimmers of hope. Almost everyone, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum, is harmed by this, and we need to be educated about it and fight back against it.

Plenty of companies work in a way where company interests align with worker interests. It's not crazy. Unsurprisingly, people do a better job when they feel their work matters, their work environment is nice, they are not under massive stress, they don't have to worry about their livelihood and families... It's all just the US-style management. Pretty much all of it. The whole idea is pushing everyone into a corner with no escape and then juicing them for all that's worth. It's not good for the company, it never was. But it's oh so amazing for the _managers_ . They get all the rewards with no responsibility for how devastating this is. You know, that Standard Oil monopoly? When they were forced to break it up... the newly formed companies made _far_ more money for their owners. The monopoly was never worth it for anything else than the ego of some guy who wanted all the power.

I 100% agree. It's a duopoly.

oh the 2 groups aren’t even left and right. it’s more like center-right and right

​@@animuswonder 🤣🤣🤣

Unfortunately we have to play by their rules because the rich will just allow fascists and ultra nationalists to start ww3 if their bottom line is threatened.

@@animuswonder How about right and far right? I understand the one party is a lot less radical than the other, but even comparing the parties' positions now versus when I was first starting to look into politics back when Regan was in office... Regan was to the left of where either party is today. He didn't strike me as being center or center-right.

Amen! 🇨🇦

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Check out the Rogers and Shaw merger that our government just ignored 😪 Burger king bought tim Hortons

Rogers-Shaw is going to *suck*. Mobile phone service and Internet access are very susceptible to monopolies (Canada is nearly at duopoly: Bellus and Shogers) because the cost to entry is so high. You can't start small and grow - a mobile provider with just one tower is never going to grow. The solution is to make all the infrastructure publicly owned and then let the telcos rent space on it. Government (or Crown corporation) builds the towers and backhaul, then any mobile provider just needs to rent space on the tower to put their antennas. Same with landline Internet. Public builds out fibre to the home, then telcos rent rack space in the COs for their equipment and start competing for customers. It is no accident that Saskatchewan probably has the best mobile coverage in the country. Sasktel makes money, but they are also accountable to the government who demands things like coverage for small towns that the private telcos won't go to because it isn't profitable enough.

@@tryveganplease4586 never, ever. Being vegan is just a silly thing to do