Apple’s battle with Epic is a reminder that today’s tech companies behave like 19th-century monopolists. Installing democratic control over these modern throwbacks to Gilded Age robber barons is the only way to curb their power.
    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Yes, you might have noticed that Microsoft, Google, Apple etc are the kind of companies which didn’t exist back then.

      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, instead there was a bunch of fruit companies, IBM, and GM.

        The most bloated corporate valuation in history was the South Sea Company, and that fiasco went down in the 1700s.