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The System Is Rigged. And You’re Paying for It.
Mergers, monopolies, and price-fixing aren’t capitalism – they’re cronyism.
Let me get this straight. You’re telling me we’re living in some Libertarian wet dream of “uncontrolled capitalism” that’s causing prices to soar? That competition is dead because the free market ran amok? That companies are merging, colluding, and squeezing consumers because capitalism? Come on.
We’re not in a free market. We’re in a highly manipulated, centralized economy where government and corporations are bedfellows. And the fallout? You. Paying more for less while the powers that be rake in the profits.
The Monopoly Myth
You say competition is down because of mergers and acquisitions. True. But that’s not capitalism’s fault – it’s a result of rigged rules that let big players crush smaller ones. A real free market wouldn’t allow monopolies to thrive unchecked. It rewards the best ideas, the best products, and the best prices.
Instead, what do we have? Regulations that drown startups while letting big corporations bend the rules. Central banks printing money that inflates asset prices, making it impossible for new entrants to compete. It’s not capitalism. It’s corporate feudalism with a central bank sugar daddy.
