Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: To fight inflation, fight monopolies; How noncompetes shackle workers to dead-end jobs; Agricultural right to repair law is a no-brainer; and more!
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To fight inflation, fight monopolies: Cartels raise prices using supply chain and "generous" benefits as cover for price-gouging.
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How noncompetes shackle workers to dead-end jobs: "You can't work for anyone who competes with Amazon for the next 18 months."
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Agricultural right to repair law is a no-brainer: Farmer-tinkerer solidarity.
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#20yrsago Michael Moore on Enron web.archive.org/web/2002060220…
#15yrsago RPM: media hackers vs the War on Terror web.archive.org/web/2007020504…
#10yrsago Understanding Google’s new privacy policy: your YouTube activity will now be linked to your searches eff.org/deeplinks/2012… 5/
#5yrsago Australia’s Goldman-Sachs Prime Minister quietly donated $1.75M to himself to secure his narrow win bbc.com/news/world-aus… 6/
#5yrsago These four oil-fattened Democratic Senators helped the GOP confirm Exxon’s Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State theintercept.com/2017/02/01/fou…
#5yrsago New York Attorney General’s lawsuit lays out years of Time-Warner “fraud” against their customers vice.com/en/article/nzd… 7/
#5yrsago Billionaire charter-school advocate and political donor calls Betsy DeVos “unprepared and unqualified” cnn.com/2017/02/02/pol…
#1yrago The free market and rent-seeking pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/eut…
#1yrago Criti-Hype pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/eut… 8/
Yesterday's threads: The Mafia hires good accountants; and more!
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