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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Yeaup. Now try looking up the largest laundry company, you’re in for a treat.
If you want another head scratcher general electrics the washing machine company also makes the main gun on A-10s the GAU-8 Avenger.
We made monopolies illegal because everyone knew how bad they are from experience. Now that people are forgetting, the rich are building them back up again.
If you think that’s bad, look up how many businesses are owned by P&G. They own a lot of companies that are typically thought of as competitors.
In Australia we don’t have monopolies as they’re illegal. So we have duopoly cartels, which aren’t.
When you realize your favorite snacks are all under one big boss! 😲🍪
Yep, monopolies still exist.
Worked at a bread factory once. I asked who the bread ships to. boss said a list of places they don’t is shorter
May I introduce you to Unilever
https://www.unilever.com/brands/
Fast food or general food or?
Actually just give the company name
Wait til you find out about the media
You will find this is you look at basically any industry. The only one I can think of that does the opposite is the telecommunications industry when AT&T got broken up, but even that has been reconsolidating ever since.
Likewise, if you look at basically any major company, you’ll find that they’re actually owned by some large conglomerate.
Feel free to try this with grocery stores, restaurants, soap companies, food companies, agricultural companies, entertainment companies, news outlets, etc.
I play this game sometimes it’s called “Who owns …” where I google the parent companies of whatever item or service. I’ve learned a lot about the billionaires who own us all.
Mondelez International moment
It’s all just monopoly with extra steps.
The illusion of choice
There is a History Channel show called “The Foods That Built America.” Almost every episode ends with “…and then they bought all of their competitors, raised prices, and now they are known worldwide.”
This true for basically everything, look into sunglasses and regular glasses, they are all basically by the same company, and it gets worse since the people who prescribe glasses are also owned by them. I remember one guy tried selling his own glasses cheaper and got shut down because he couldn’t ” properly ” prescribe glasses, it’s a real corporate hell scape for prescription lenses these days.
And if daddy Elon has it his way, he’ll own all of them.
The real kicker is who started buying and consolidating a lot of them in the 80’s, after being blasted for giving their customers cancer, in order to diversify their holdings.
[When you find out why combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC franchises exist](https://youtube.com/shorts/3tOJCbo50EQ?si=cA9EE_kmTTHR2XYz)
Its smuckers , its all smuckers
Doesn’t the average US grocery store only have like a handful of dozens of unique parent company products due to merging?
It’s been posted before, but Ball, the company that makes Mason jars. Yeah, they are an aerospace company now.
Gamers being upset that Sony is buying a bunch of shit discovering what, you know, the fucking food industry you need to live is doing
It’s called “the illusion of choice”
I did a report on Pepsi in 6th grade (06) and that was my first introduction to what monopolies are.
say it out loud with me folks,
*There is no ethical consumption under capitalism*
Nestle and Kraft*
Yeahhh, everything has been slowly verging towards monopoly for a very long time.
FACTS. I’ve been down that same wormhole. It’s like that for an alarming amount of industries.
If you’re American, there’s like a 90% chance your closest theme park is a Six Flags
Yeah I remember when all the different companies were actually different companies. But capitalism go brrr
Meanwhile Kellogg’s has/is in the process of splitting up into three companies with one of them merging with Mars. And Unilever is spinning some product lines off.
And Kraft used to be owned by Phillip Morris.
So everyone’s merging *and* being split off from everyone.
Reminds me of agar.io where the bigger company swallows the smaller one and becomes bigger
First time learning about the business world?
Bad news about every large food company!
Here I’ll save u the time their are 3 major corporates black rock vanguard and ur mom . They own everything
Samsung, the phone company, makes tanks for the military. This is one of my favorite facts
Now try googling your vets office. At least in Canada. Most have been bought up by one single company.
I am living for this meme. I hope it spreads and subsequently pisses everyone off so much that they stop letting these fucks make money.
Not food, but it’s crazy to me how many soda brands are owned by the coca cola company
Kroger
It gets worse…. a lot of our food is brought to you by the companies that said cigarettes were safe, healthy, and nonaddictive
[How Big Tobacco created America’s junk food diet and obesity epidemic](https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/how-big-tobacco-created-america-s-junk-food-diet-and-obesity-epi.html)
the tobacco companies teamed up to do this then diversified their holdings to hide it
Most box stores (Walmart, Safeway, Costco) are filled by like 6 companies.
r/fucknestle
America is being run by 12 companies in a trench coat.
Worse yet,
I just heard that 3 or 4 companies control almost all of the seeds that get planted to become the raw ingredients to our food.
So a bunch of smaller companies are actually just 12 companies, and those 12 rely on 3 or 4.
Monopolies are alive and well, and nothing we do will ever stop that.