#concentrated — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #concentrated, aggregated by home.social.
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Mr. Smoozles season 2 episode 40
#comicstrip #cartoon #humour #noai #mrsmoozles #cats #stink #floored #concentrated
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Experimental analysis of micro-cavity influence on the effective solar absorptance of white sand curtain on porous obstructions of particle heating receivers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25000292
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China's largest #CSP tower project linked to power grid
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The #Violence of #Wealth and #Income #Inequality
With each passing year #wealth becomes #concentrated in the hands of a smaller and smaller number of #individuals and #corporations. It is estimated that by 2030 the richest 1% in the world will possess 2/3rds of all #global #wealth.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Classwarfare #Income #Wealth #Inequality
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/26/the-violence-of-wealth-and-income-inequality/
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In an editorial criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris for her speech on Friday,
the Washington Post claimed that it’s “hard to see how groceries” qualify as a perpetrator of “excessive” profits.A lesson in market concentration is overdue.
Markets are ‘#concentrated’ when a few companies control a substantial percentage of the market.
Concentrated markets are not a consumer’s friend.
At the consumer level, a 2023 USDA report revealed ♦️“[i]n most metropolitan areas, five to six store chains account for most supermarket sales.” ♦️
⭐️The challenge here is that chains aren’t individually owned.
For example, Kroger owns two chains in the Seattle MSA, “account[ing] for about one-third of the Seattle region’s grocery market.“
Three firms control about half the Seattle area grocery market: Kroger, Albertson’s (Safeway) and Costco.
At the wholesale level,🌟 “the four largest meatpackers accounted for 85% of steer and heifer slaughter and 67% of hog slaughter” in 2019.
For farmers, 🌟“two seed companies accounted for 72% of planted corn acres and 66% of planted soybean acres in the U.S. in 2018-20.”
♦️Fewer and fewer firms control the products on the shelves. They are responsible for #shrinkflation and offer an “#illusion #of #choice.”
⚠️These are not “free” and “competitive” markets.
👉“[P]er capita, Americans spend more on food than Italians,” according to Austin Frerick, author of ‘Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry.’
Now add to all of this Kroger’s implementation of #digital #price #tags “which would allow employees to update prices for items within seconds.” 🔸The price when you took an item off the shelf could easily be less than when you scanned it to check out.
It’s a system and that system is broken, whether the Washington Post editorial board thinks so or not.
Democracy dies in willful ignorance.https://themoderatevoice.com/wapo-editorial-board-demonstrates-it-doesnt-understand-economics/
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There is a link on this site to their recent report on harms from #concentrated industries..not just tech, but think any #monopoly like grocery in Canada...and it isn't just the obvious analysis like price but data on lack of #innovation .. from https://ccsi.columbia.edu/
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About 20% of the population is now #concentrated in only seven municipalities, which comprises about 1.1% of the area of #Portugal
“At the other extreme, also representing about 20% of the population, we have 208 least populated municipalities which occupy 65.8% of the country's area," reads the publication of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).