Pluralistic: Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores (27 Mar 2023)

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Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores: Walmart's jackals, picking over the remains.
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Pluralistic: The antitrust Twilight Zone (16 Dec 2022)

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The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer.
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Pluralistic: 07 Nov 2022 The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers

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The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers: Now for the bad news.
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Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2022: Chokepoint Capitalism Kickstarter is live

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Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook: We wrote a book that Amazon won't sell.
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Pluralistic: 19 Mar 2021

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Chevron bought the US justice system: It was cheaper than paying its $9.8b fine for ecocide.
Chickenized reverse-centaurs: Can Amazon drivers get justice?
Announcing "The Shakedown": Rebecca Giblin and I wrote a book about creative worker exploitation!
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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2021

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SMS security is flaming garbage: Netnumber is a perfect microcosm of telephonic uselessness.
The People's Parity Project: An antidote to corporate law.
Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony.
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Pluralistic: 12 Dec 2020

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Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
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