(January 27, 2016 at 6:20 pm)Cecelia Wrote: "If you can't afford it, tough luck!"
Except you don't have any choices. In most places there's a monopoly in place. Which means companies don't have to compete with one another. Which means you can't simply 'not' buy from that specific company if you disagree with their policies. This isn't hard to understand. If you want the internet, you have to deal with that company. And good luck getting by without the internet if you live in today's society. Those companies now have no reason to upgrade their equipment, improve their service, or do anything to please their customers.
What is really vile about big business, is that their flooding politics infects the minds of small business owners as well. Walfart is closing some stores. But when they went in they destroyed local shops, but still get small business to vote fort the very party that allows them to crush small businesses. They interviewed former small business owners that got screwed by them moving in.
"Business owner" is stupidly like religion and political ideology, treated like a gang to be protected with blind loyalty, which gets the small business owner to fail to see they are not in the same weight class as a big business.
And big business knows this, so they hide behind code language avoiding parent companies by calling the sub set umbrella smaller businesses they really own to keep their monopoly. So if you ever here a GOP politician use the term "small business", that is bullshit, that is really nothing but protecting the monopoly of the parent company.
