Break ‘Em Up:Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money - Zephyr Teachout (Foreword by Bernie Sanders)
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Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we’ve seen since the Gilded Age. They are evolving into political entities that often have more influence than the actual government, bending state and federal legislatures to their will and even creating arbitration courts that circumvent the US justice system. How can we recover our freedom from these giants? Anti-corruption scholar and activist Zephyr Teachout has the answer: Break ‘Em Up.
This audiobook is a clarion call for liberals and leftists looking to find a common cause. Teachout makes a compelling case that monopolies are the root cause of many of the issues that today’s progressives care about; they drive economic inequality, harm the planet, limit the political power of average citizens, and historically disenfranchised groups bear the brunt of their shameful and irresponsible business practices. In order to build a better future, we must eradicate monopolies from the private sector and create new safeguards that prevent new ones from seizing power.
Through her expert analysis of monopolies in several sectors and their impact on courts, journalism, inequality, and politics, Teachout offers a concrete path toward thwarting these enemies of working Americans and reclaiming our democracy before it’s too late.
“[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing…you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost every aspect of American life, and you will also learn about what can be done to stop that trend before it is too late.” (From the foreword by Bernie Sanders)
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This post has 12 comments with rating of 5/5
August 8th, 2020
Hardly a desirable state of affairs, to be sure. However, if the the flawed, corrupt, incompetent State were to replace these big entities, wouldn’t it represent the biggest, most powerful, undesirable monopoly of all? Unprecedented in its overwhelming hegemony over individual autonomy. Certainly not an effective alternative.
P’haps properly viable & sensible regulation will cut this particular Gordian knot; accompanied by the intelligent use of judicial review.
August 8th, 2020
There’s something to be said for turning the tables over every so often. Free enterprise seems generally for the best though it will concentrate evils. Flip toward the middle I say.
August 8th, 2020
Shuffle the Overlords, indeed. As long as the shuffling technique doesn’t involve stupid, mass-murdering ideology & a social system that doesn’t work - I’m in, baby!
August 8th, 2020
Yup, a Booker T spinaroonie action is what we want to keep us in with a chance. A straight flip will see one more often than not over the top rope out of Royal Rumble along with our Wrestle-mania dreams.
August 8th, 2020
Once again Caesar is correct, but history has shown that changing any status quo usually results in the ‘breaking of a few eggs’, if not millions.
August 8th, 2020
…and after all the bloody “statistics” you merely end up with a slightly altered (or far worse) set of evil phuckrs in supreme command. P’haps with a different colour & design of uniform.
August 8th, 2020
Grotesque uniforms & barbaric euphemisms - beloved of ideologues everywhere.
August 9th, 2020
you criticize ideologues, caesar963, but your own language is dripping with ideology of the American libertarian stripe, particularly when you talk about “states.” Interesting that you fail to see how this ideology has done such enormous damage to the American political system.
August 9th, 2020
“State” meaning the Nation State, of course, not the American version. Libertarianism is just as implausible as the other ideologies. Probably not as genocidal due to the scale - it’s never really been tried, however. Some discrete ideas have been influential.
The American political system is waaaay outside my jurisdiction (why is everyone assumed to be American on the internet? Even non-Americans assume that everyone is American. Is this yet another instance of anti-solipsism?).
Every country will always have governmental problems, democratic deficit, etc. Our institutions are flawed because they reflect us. Perfect utopias are not possible, and striving to achieve them has proven utterly catastrophic, as we know. Dystopia results. As long as we steer well clear of the more obviously stupid, mass-murdering ideologies, we’ll be grand.
August 10th, 2020
I didn’t assume you were American. I assumed you were English with an affinity for American Libertarianism. If I’d thought you were an American I would have just said “libertarianism.”
I agree that every government has problems and always will. But it would be foolish to conflate reform with utopian strivings. And to assume that breaking up monopolies entails the creation of new state monopolies, is a very libertarian (American) kind of thing to say, hence my (wrong) assumption about you.
August 10th, 2020
…er, not English either, I’m afraid. Assumptions are always ticklishly problematical. In fairness, your comment was, ah, dripping with Americentrism - a ubiquitous problem on the steam-powered internet. That stripe of libertarianism is not just American. Most of the theorists are (& have been) non-American.
Reform is always necessary, that’s a given. However, as we have seen, in its utopian form it has consistently shown itself to be absolutely disastrous. I think that it’s very far from foolish to make this historical observation.
To curb all manifestations of harmful monopolies, I suggested that properly viable & sensible regulation could manage & control the problem, combined with the intelligent use of judicial review, by involved interest groups & activists.
September 7th, 2020
caesar963 is in every comment section, always with too much to say and yet so little meaning.
If they spend all their time here, typing nonsense to people, when do they ever have time to actually read all of these books?
And isn’t it strange that they seem only to comment on ‘liberal’ content? Weird.
Anyway, thank you for the upload.
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