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I'm Getting Real Down On Elizabeth Warren
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Thank you, everybody for all the well-reasoned and rational responses.
I can't say I'm not still very wary of Warren but I have a better understanding now of the the counter argument.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein 
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. 
Never go down on a politician...
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
I've seen a lot of focus on breaking up facebook. Meh. I really don't think facebook is enough of a monopoly that it needs to be broken up. There's still plenty of other social networking out there be it twitter or instigram or tumblr or reddit or whatever. Not to mention, when you boil it down, social media is just entertainment and it's not like we're lacking in other forms of entertainment. If facebook ceased to exist tomorrow, I'd miss it, but I'd still be able to keep myself occupied.
If you want to worry about companies squeezing out competition and becoming monopolies, there are bigger fish to fry. Disney might be a place to start. Amazon could stand to be broken up. Or even Walmart. The banks have needed to be broken up a long time ago and breaking up the big airlines and food producers would help people out, too. But when it comes to big tech, I think the only tech industry that even gets close to being so big they're dangerous is Amazon (microsoft could get there, but Bill Gates seems more laid back than that). 
It's kind of crazy that the banks didn't get broken up after the recession in 2008, honestly. Too big to fail is too big to exist. If we're supposed to be capitalists, that means when a business fails, you're supposed to just let it crash and burn. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and all that.
 (October 28, 2019 at 10:49 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's kind of crazy that the banks didn't get broken up after the recession in 2008, honestly. Too big to fail is too big to exist. If we're supposed to be capitalists, that means when a business fails, you're supposed to just let it crash and burn. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and all that. That's the kind of political power money will buy you in Washington nowadays: finance all of the elected officials on both sides of the isle and nobody will dare pass any kind of legislation that will reduce you in either power or money. It's basically legalized bribes. |
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