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by nrmitchi5 hours ago |
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upvoteby njovin3 hours ago|
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Much in the same way that the company selling tickets and taking a percentage of all ticket resales shouldn't also own the venues which can then force artists to use a specific ticketing provider, thus creating a monopoly.

We have antitrust laws in the US but they do us absolutely no good when the government refuses to even consider enforcing them, which seems to be the case in the past few decades.

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upvoteby mike_bob51 minutes ago|
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Biden passed some of the toughest anti-trust laws in the past 20 years, but Trump repealed them quite literally in the first month he returned to office, calling anti-trust legislation as "bad for business".
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upvoteby starik3638 minutes ago|
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The only entity that "passes" laws in this country is Congress.

You mean via executive order? That's not exactly passing a law.

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upvoteby gmueckl27 minutes ago|
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Executive orders can effectively kneecap any efforts to put laws into effect, as we can see almost daily since 20. January 2025.
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upvoteby Schiendelman10 minutes ago|
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On the other hand, that would mean no Apple TV, no Fire TV stick... I suspect that would have downsides for the market.
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upvoteby TMWNN3 hours ago|
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RCA owned NBC until 1986, when it was bought by GE. GE soon exited the TV business, but retained NBC for another two decades.
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upvoteby kylehotchkiss3 hours ago|
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The Fox News audience has been told to passionately disagree with you.
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upvoteby airstrike4 hours ago|
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that law does not exist, probably because not enough people feel that way
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upvoteby Silamoth3 hours ago|
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That’s a pretty naive model of how laws get passed in the US. A lot of laws would be different if your model held true.
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upvoteby joshstrange2 hours ago|
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s/people/money

As if the will of the people is what matters... Only if those people are backed by money does matter. I don't agree with that, but that's the world we live in.

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upvoteby thinkingtoilet4 hours ago|
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Your reasoning does not stand at all. There are plenty of things that the majority of people agree upon in this country but it does not get done for a variety of reasons. For example, it's not as important as other issues so they can't prioritize it for voting, gerrymandering, etc...
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upvoteby airstrike3 hours ago|
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It literally does? Things that people care strongly about get prioritized. I said others don't feel like the OP. Maybe they agree with the point if presented with the choice, but again, they don't feel the same way, so they don't think, protest, comment, demand it in the way the OP does.
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upvoteby thinkingtoilet2 hours ago|
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Not at all. I can feel very strongly about that, but if I feel more strongly about health care so tens of thousands of people don't die needlessly and countless millions more don't go bankrupt or get maimed from lack treatment, one is going to win over the other. That doesn't mean I don't feel strongly about it. Also, the 600,000 in Wyoming get the same two senators as the 40,000,000 people in California so it's not like there is equal representation by any means.
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upvoteby airstrike2 hours ago|
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Like I said, not enough people care about it enough to push for legislation.

And proportional representation is found in the House of Representatives. We have a bicameral legislature.

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upvoteby toss12 hours ago|
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More accurately, they adwquately don't give politicians the money and exercise the power of wealth.

An extensive study [0], showed "Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it"

They studied actual attitudes about issues, moneyed attitudes, and tracked what got implemented as laws. NONE of the 'thinking, protesting, commenting, of demanding' was effective. MONEY was.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

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upvoteby jsrozner3 hours ago|
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or, you know, lobbying and oligarchy. great at changing outcomes even when the folks agree.
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upvoteby harimau7773 hours ago|
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Or because the Epstein class has used their stranglehold of the media and politics to push that belief.
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