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
    1•4 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
      1•4 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.