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Musk doesn't dominate any industry and he makes cool things so not so much criticism. Never mind Bezos himself, but some of these companies really ought to be broken up. Amazon and Facebook are prime candidates...

After all the consolidations that took place in the oil industry in the late 90's and 2000's, the sole beneficiaries of those consolidations were the stock owners. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs (by now hundreds of thousands), and no one was for the better.
ExxonMobil, Shell/BG, Bp/Amoco, Total/Fina/Elf, Texaco/Conoco and all the big oil companies have to be broken up again. They still hold too much power.
And yes, most of the tech giants I would break up too. Way too powerful and the risks are still not completely known or understood.
(Don't get me started on the airlines...)

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:52 pm
Musk, on the other hand, is one level above a grifter. And yet he's escaped most criticism.

Amen. And I can't say what I really want about him on here about his recognizability, so the kindest way I can think to put it is that he is not shy about peddling his celebrity.

Suliso wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:08 pm Musk doesn't dominate any industry and he makes cool things so not so much criticism. Never mind Bezos himself, but some of these companies really ought to be broken up. Amazon and Facebook are prime candidates...

In the US he does in the electric car market. Considerable domination.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:51 pm

It is the right policy to follow. 6 decades of an embargo have brought nothing.
But there goes Florida to the GOP for the next 30 years. Cubans and Venezuelans believe the only way to handle Cuba and Maduro is to invade militarily.
Of course, that means US MARINES invade Cuba and Venezuela. We are too busy buying stuff at an American Mall to bother doing it ourselves.

Let it go, Florida is a lost cause anyway.

That reminds me of being about that age & my brother & I dug a cave into the snow bank at the side of the driveway near the street. My brother went inside for something & I was in the snowbank when I heard a rumbling, but because of all the snow I didn't know what I was hearing or how close it was. I stuck my head out looking up to see a large front loader with a load of snow above my head, and a startled municipal worker at the controls. If I hadn't stuck my head out at that moment he would have buried me alive.

The stories from our childhoods that make you wonder: "How on earth am I alive?!"
That must have been scary.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:14 am The stories from our childhoods that make you wonder: "How on earth am I alive?!"
That must have been scary.

I think it disturbs me more now then it did then, though I did scramble to my feet and move out of the way. The part that gets me now is wondering how long I would have been in the snowbank before my brother came back, and how long after that would he realize that I was under the snow.

When Education is a priority parents will find a way.



Someone said there were 36 kids in the SUV.