(September 22, 2021 at 8:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 22, 2021 at 8:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The mess we are in now, as far as monopolies are concerned, at least with America, began when Reagan successfully busted the air traffic control unions. Citizens United was gas on the already burning fire that came decades later.
Before that, back in the 70s the most memorable anti monopoly bust for me was when our Supreme Court broke up the Bell Telephone company.
Companies like Windows or Apple or Google or Walmart or Amazon and even banks, are getting away far to much of mergers and exploitation because they are so big.
Union busting and Citizens United had nothing to do with monopolies.
Boru
Yea, that is why rich people cant pool their resources and political power or come close to the power of the middle class and working poor.
It is most certainly a decades long push by the rich and the economic right to bully congress into giving them everything they want.
Unions helped build the middle class after WW2, and those unions helped build our middle class. Reagan was the beginning of union decline. And the GOP is responsible for the erosion of worker stability, to this day.