#naturalmonopolies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #naturalmonopolies, aggregated by home.social.
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"The maddest examples have come when monopolies – water, rail – have been sold to private firms, even though competition is the only thing that makes markets work. A private monopoly is the worst of both worlds: no competition-based incentives to improve, and no public-good ethos pushing the organisation to look out for citizens’ interests."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
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"The maddest examples have come when monopolies – water, rail – have been sold to private firms, even though competition is the only thing that makes markets work. A private monopoly is the worst of both worlds: no competition-based incentives to improve, and no public-good ethos pushing the organisation to look out for citizens’ interests."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
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"The maddest examples have come when monopolies – water, rail – have been sold to private firms, even though competition is the only thing that makes markets work. A private monopoly is the worst of both worlds: no competition-based incentives to improve, and no public-good ethos pushing the organisation to look out for citizens’ interests."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
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"The maddest examples have come when monopolies – water, rail – have been sold to private firms, even though competition is the only thing that makes markets work. A private monopoly is the worst of both worlds: no competition-based incentives to improve, and no public-good ethos pushing the organisation to look out for citizens’ interests."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
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@phocks
We'll never forget a telco saying, we just on-sell the data packages the govt (#nbnCo if we remember) sell to us wholesale.Horray, corporate capture of #naturalMonopolies!
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@phocks
We'll never forget a telco saying, we just on-sell the data packages the govt (#nbnCo if we remember) sell to us wholesale.Horray, corporate capture of #naturalMonopolies!
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@phocks
We'll never forget a telco saying, we just on-sell the data packages the govt (#nbnCo if we remember) sell to us wholesale.Horray, corporate capture of #naturalMonopolies!
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@phocks
We'll never forget a telco saying, we just on-sell the data packages the govt (#nbnCo if we remember) sell to us wholesale.Horray, corporate capture of #naturalMonopolies!
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@phocks
We'll never forget a telco saying, we just on-sell the data packages the govt (#nbnCo if we remember) sell to us wholesale.Horray, corporate capture of #naturalMonopolies!
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"Does it follow that the new monster-UBS will usher in an era when banks are large, heavily regulated utilities, or even effectively nationalized industries?"
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"Does it follow that the new monster-UBS will usher in an era when banks are large, heavily regulated utilities, or even effectively nationalized industries?"
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"Does it follow that the new monster-UBS will usher in an era when banks are large, heavily regulated utilities, or even effectively nationalized industries?"
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"Does it follow that the new monster-UBS will usher in an era when banks are large, heavily regulated utilities, or even effectively nationalized industries?"
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"Does it follow that the new monster-UBS will usher in an era when banks are large, heavily regulated utilities, or even effectively nationalized industries?"
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@icedquinn
Sustainable Australia Party used to call these "de facto standards" "#naturalMonopolies".They used to argue that such natural monopolies must be made public.
They may still do, but we can no longer access their site as #cloudFlare blocks access to it. Cloudflare serve a number of other #minorParty websites, all of which are inaccessible.
Keep in mind, #Australia is IN AN #ELECTION, right now.
#auspol #privacy #electionMeddling #electionRigging #USA #democracyDoesNotExist
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@icedquinn
Sustainable Australia Party used to call these "de facto standards" "#naturalMonopolies".They used to argue that such natural monopolies must be made public.
They may still do, but we can no longer access their site as #cloudFlare blocks access to it. Cloudflare serve a number of other #minorParty websites, all of which are inaccessible.
Keep in mind, #Australia is IN AN #ELECTION, right now.
#auspol #privacy #electionMeddling #electionRigging #USA #democracyDoesNotExist
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@LibreSolutionsNetwork
While that is a good abstracted "effect of fascism" the story is simple.> Facism is the melding of govt with #bigBusiness.
In the case of #theWest, the most fascism over the generations has stemmed from #banking and finance, but we see big #propertyDevelopers, BigPharma, #CAGEFAM and a MilitaryIndustrialComplex, as unwieldy and extremely dangerous bedfellows with govt.
Natural monopolies should only be govt managed.
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@nonlinear
Precisely, people will pay taxes for things that they see value in, yes. Things that are palatable. People will take a active role in what their government is spending their taxes on.Unlike today.
With never-ending streams of funds going to grifters for often #uselessJobs, or jobs that would be #volunteer. There should be a #UBI, and a govt that manages #naturalMonopolies, preventing other monopolies from forming, and have protections for environment, health and safety.
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Then there are monopolies that are removed from public scruitiny altogether (eg. Cloudflare). One main irony to us, is that that #FFFDotOrg link you posted is on a Cloudflare website, @lain, many social progress indicators have been or are going down especially since the 1970s.
Most thinkers seem to be on the page of #naturalMonopolies being managed by the ppl collectively - ie. govt and not by oligarchic corporations.
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> FCC should exist for limited and difficult to manage resources like radio bandwidth but probably not for private resources like cable television/ internet. or maybe it should when those services reach monopoly status.
The term we've adopted is #naturalMonopolies and yes they do need to be govt, (ie. WeThePeople) operated. Eg. land registries, roads, water treatment, electricity grid, radio frequencies, immigration system, law courts, naturalResourceManagment etc.
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What if the last #prisons in the #US were run by #ThePeople, containing only #exPresidents, #militaryGenerals, #oligarchs, #CEOs, #boardMembers #centralBankers, #politicalDonors to both major parties, #corporateMedia hacks, #thinkTank chairs, those who allowed #naturalMonopolies to be #privatised, actual #pirates, sex, child and #humanTraffickers, and persecutors of #JulianAssange…
…because they were exposed in the 80GB of #InsuranceFiles he encrypted and torrented?
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@arh
#Prison is a deterrent against future #antiTrust cartels like #CAGFAM.Here's a question: would you say that #reverseProxies are a #naturalMonopoly, there's only a few in the world, right?
How did #Cloudflare and #Cloudfront secure such dominant positions in that space? Real ingenuity or connections to power? Cloudflare seems to be a beneficiary of #wallStreet bailouts during the #GFC.
What to do with #NaturalMonopolies? They must be owned by #thePeople.
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@carl @FuchsiaShock
Also #rankedChoiceVoting - and #nationalising #NaturalMonopolies.So although he's not black we can *again* see that the GreenParty deserve attention far beyond the "#corporateParty" of DemReps. We believe it's better to elect leaders based on policy anyway - regardlsss of their identity. GreenParty still have the best policies (of those parties we know of).