It's a game of monopoly and we're all losing.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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We should have our wealthy play hungry hungry hippos. As in we toss them into a marsh with 4 hungry hippos.
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Oh no, it's not a monopoly. It's an oligopoly. It's like exactly the same except it's completely legal.
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Fuckin Loblaws selling " Presidents Choice" food in a country with no President. Except the President of Loblaws ... Basically the coup already happened.
Historically, the name came from Dave Nichol, who was president of the company for decades. He actually had a very strong hand in the selection of products that were included in the product line.
Apparently all kinds of people would pitch product ideas at him, and would taste test them and pick only ones he liked. The idea of "President's Choice" wasn't to be cheapo no name products, but unique and distinctive stuff personally picked by the company's president.
And Dave wasn't just some guy in the corner office. In his prime he was a Canadian personality, and you saw him in TV commercials. Once he left Loblaws in the '90s the President's Choice stuff lost its panache and meaning.
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If he could get away with it, he'd rename is Peasant's Choice.
Oh wait. He probably can get away with it.
I heard a theory years ago, that the cellphone companies divided Canada up. Each company gets to be market leader in their region.
Sounds very anti-competitive to me.
That’s exactly how cable works in the States, you only have one real choice depending on where you live. If you try and cancel over their atrocious service there’s a very real chance they’ll ask what other choices you think you have.
All the smart cable companies make most of their revenue from cable internet now; what remains of cable TV is propped up by a minority of older people who refuse to get with the times or relatively well-off folks who just don't care.
Me, constantly telling my dad he doesn’t need to spend $300 a month to be brainwashed by mainstream media lmao
Just brainwash yourself on YouTube 🤷🏼♂️
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Susan Crawford wrote on and talked about this (mis)handling of telecoms in the US context years ago, the government letting the companies divide regions up and ensure a lack of competition.
My reading of the situation in Canada for internet and wireless is that it was a historical mix of:
- lacking political will/interest to govern from day one
- a policy of letting the free market run until it’s a major problem
- follow the US lead for anything new
- and support the (then) recently de-regulated incumbent (Bell) to dominate
- give competitive advantages to Canadian companies vs allowing foreign competition even if it means worse outcomes for Canadian consumers (better to protect the Canadian economy from foreign interests than to ensure consumer best interests).
Didn't a Telus exec confirm this publicly? It's a little more than a theory.
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I always heard "Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother's shoulders in a trechcoat."
Although that one applies equally to Australia.
It is more like an oil company, a mining company, and a logging company all on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat
and two cell phone companies hanging off the torso pretending they are arms .... and a big giant dong of a grocery store hanging off the groin.
Worst zoltron villain ever.
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Bit of a stretch to say they're rivals.
Then you got neat little fiefdoms too, like Irvingland - whoops, I mean New Brunswick.
Probably wanna delete this before the Irvings put a hit out on you
Long live Sasktel.
Until Bell decides to snuff it out. They'll use their "legal" division (aka the CRTC) to outlaw it and no-one will squawk about it because: if you control the media, you control 'the people's' voice. We live in the shittiest timeline.
Lol. It's a crown corporation and WILDLY popular. No one will squawk? Any party would not withstanding that shit immediately because it's popular, and then just wrap it in their party-specific words.
The LAST thing Bell wants is to draw national attention to how well a provincial offering is. The LAST thing they want is for people to see that there are alternative structures that are working for other Canadians.
I’m sure the conservatives will continue trying to figure out a way to push it to withering and crumbling… they definitely tried to sell off/privatize chunks of them in the past but the level of outrage they were met with has put those ideas to bed for the time being
It's a tough fight for them because of how familiar the population is with those corps.
Lab services in Sask have bounced between private and public several times... Nobody really notices (which is sad IMO)
But SGI and SaskTel... Everyone is a client, and everyone can look over any provincial border and go "whoa, don't wanna end up like them".
"This part of the Crown corporation is profitable on its own, we should sell it off!"
"Why are we spending so much money to subsidize this Crown corporation!? We should sell it off!"
And then bell asks us why we’re depressed.
when you try the American experiment in a country with the population of California
sorry about that by the way
Hey, we have checks and balances in place.
The Senate is occupied by two railroads.
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We also have a senate, consisting of appointed large dairy farmers.
In Australia it’s 2 supermarkets and 4 banks.
4 separate companies in one sector
Cannot relate.
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And a coffee shop which is widely loved but functionally is just a powerless figurehead.
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Not Canadian… yet. How close I am to citizenship?
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Rogers
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Lobslaw
Lobslaw 🤣🤔🤣🤔🤣
I'm keeping that one.
I suppose that’s one point against citizenship lol
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Wait but Joe Rogan told me it's governed by a communist, I don't know what that is but it can't be good
Really crazy how Irving's don't get a mention.
As a Canadian, what the hell is an Irving?
Closest thing Canada has to royal family. They own the east coast.
I grew up in Ontario. Never heard of them. Then I moved out east and holy fuck it was crazy how I never heard of this family. They own everything in the maritimes. Them and the McCain's(french fry McCain's).
It's to the point that the Maritimes feel like a factory town and most of Canada never heard of them. Might have something to do with how they own all media out there too.
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'rival'
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