You think it’s inflation, bird flu, or Ukraine. The real story is a multi-layered extraction machine — oligopolies, $523 million in lobbying, subsidies that make processed junk cheap, and food deserts that are pure business decisions. A data-driven structural breakdown that actually explains why your cart costs more.
Hey Emmett... appreciate you taking the time to engage, man.
I couldn't have put it better and I have this awful habit of using so many more words than you but that does express my feeling... Fucking disgusting and UN AMERICAN yet still shamelessly wrapped in a 🇺🇸
It isn’t just this situation, it’s what it represents. We don’t “make” things in this country the way we used to. Over the last 50 years, a lot of companies shifted away from the basics: build something valuable, compete on quality, earn trust.
Now it’s about engineering the system instead of earning a place in it.
It's like where the big bad Corporation but fuck competing, we'll just lobby. And fuck innovating, let's just buy up the competition and consolidate. Fuck improving products... Let's just optimize pricing and control who has access to what... higher costs, lower quality, fewer choices.... So prevalent in every single system that it's overwhelming but it's not something that's irreversible. It just feels that way.
If we realize that this left and right thing isn't real it's just marketing because the real political theater that we need to pay attention is power which is encompassed in this and the military defense budget and funding for every budget line item there is raped down to the interest we pay on it it's not left versus right it's the citizens versus Power in the top 1% and they're in politicians corporations and systems. We could have a mini Revolution and that's why I wrote my make America Grow Again series:
25 mini revolutions that we need right now and can afford if we eliminate the lobbies and the s*** that we don't vote on but have representing us anyway....
and when you get a dozen experts on each one that lay out what needs to be done and you put it in front of the public so they can't have the will put over there pulled over their eyes actually have a plan. It's execute the whole thing will take at least 8 years of non-stop Focus after setting the goal and certain things will take longer but it's not about left and right anymore it's about giving us back a democracy....
And the barrier to entry? It’s not talent or effort anymore. It’s whether you can afford to play the political game just to get on the field.
That’s not capitalism.... Its gatekeeping.
The real divide isn’t left vs. right, it’s people vs. power. Corporations, politicians, and concentrated money protecting themselves.
We can fix it. It’s not irreversible. But it takes focus, transparency, and actual plans people can see and hold accountable.
Right now? It’s not a free market. It’s a controlled one.
Jeez man. I couldn’t have said this any better and you are right. It isn’t irreversible! There are actions and steps to take. I’m glad you’re using your voice and taking the initiative to make it know. I agree to the fullest it’s a power thing set up by the 1%-.5/.25 %. It’s goes so deep. Everyone needs to pull together to stop this front on the well being of the people. I’ll keep doing my part. You, yours. And hopefully our voices will lead to action. Because like you pointed out. It is doable, and very possible. Thank you for your reply sir. Means a lot
Hey man I'm just Rxan (Ryan) - no sir. And i'm going to start putting my face on camera , which is a hard habit to get into since I spent most of my life avoiding that which is another story but I've been through some things in life that I am certain most people will never go through but at the same time I know that if they did, they would look at the issue with less of a belief and more of an understanding, furthermore, their understanding would be a very similar. So while people take sides left and right they really just don't get it. It's power over people. Left and right is marketing. Anyone that's ever go off the streets of inner city and seeing somebody get killed for no reason . Anyone that's gone into one of their schools and met the kids and the teachers. Anyone that spent a night in jail. I think one that's at a bullet was by there head during a war that they don't understand. All these things or most of them are things that everyone can experience but not and no one bothers to . I'm not saying that all of them are easy or I would recommend but it really puts things in perspective and stops the argument and I'm trying to get people to think differently the problem is that most of them think that I'm an enemy once I say something that makes them uncomfortable so keep talking with me because I'm trying to build a subscriber list that reads like a roll call for revolution.
I love it. Keep going. You got this most certainly. The stories you just described are ones that though may be uncomfortable teach the most. I hear you. My life has been… well, something different too. But I commend you on your efforts, seriously.
It’s all of a piece. The drive for Monopoly Capitalism is almost genetic.
Fossil Fuels & over processed foods produced by huge corporations are part of the same problem & have been for at least 60 yrs.
Us hippies used to dumpster dive for food until they installed monster garbage machines.
The local “Farmer’s” Markets, “Pure Organic” & anti-processed foods movements grew out of our desire to side step the monopoly colossi that were delivering poison disguised as food.
Hyper vigilance and strict laws are a start. Right now the racist reactionary monopolists have control of the government & the officials & oversight structures have been captured by the corporate behemoths.
We have, in IT & the MCP - AI, so called, the tools to take back control. A MCP is the perfect watchdog, as long as it’s given the correct algorithms.
Leash & collar the Tech & Billionaire Bros & smash the monopolists.
I agree that concentrated power is the common thread. Monopolies rarely emerge in a vacuum. They often grow where corporate power and political power become intertwined. Corporate capture is real. Regulatory capture is real.
But government capture is also real.
That's why I tend to focus less on who holds the power and more on whether meaningful checks exist on that power.
The same question applies to Big Oil, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street, labor unions, political parties, intelligence agencies, and government bureaucracies:
Who watches the watchdogs?
History is full of examples where private monopolies abused power. It's also full of examples where centralized governments did the same.
The goal shouldn't be replacing one concentration of power with another. The goal should be dispersing power enough that no institution becomes too big to challenge.
That's where democracy, transparency, competition, local accountability, and independent journalism still matter.
The problem is monopoly power.
And most importantly, like Robert said. We will overcome in the first step is that we all get on the same page with this very big problem because I do believe it's number one on the list because everything trickles down from this.
All part of the same monster. Fucking horrendous, smh grrr
Hey Emmett... appreciate you taking the time to engage, man.
I couldn't have put it better and I have this awful habit of using so many more words than you but that does express my feeling... Fucking disgusting and UN AMERICAN yet still shamelessly wrapped in a 🇺🇸
It isn’t just this situation, it’s what it represents. We don’t “make” things in this country the way we used to. Over the last 50 years, a lot of companies shifted away from the basics: build something valuable, compete on quality, earn trust.
Now it’s about engineering the system instead of earning a place in it.
It's like where the big bad Corporation but fuck competing, we'll just lobby. And fuck innovating, let's just buy up the competition and consolidate. Fuck improving products... Let's just optimize pricing and control who has access to what... higher costs, lower quality, fewer choices.... So prevalent in every single system that it's overwhelming but it's not something that's irreversible. It just feels that way.
If we realize that this left and right thing isn't real it's just marketing because the real political theater that we need to pay attention is power which is encompassed in this and the military defense budget and funding for every budget line item there is raped down to the interest we pay on it it's not left versus right it's the citizens versus Power in the top 1% and they're in politicians corporations and systems. We could have a mini Revolution and that's why I wrote my make America Grow Again series:
https://uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/uncomfortable-america-25-hard-truth?r=5xf1q5&hl=en-US
25 mini revolutions that we need right now and can afford if we eliminate the lobbies and the s*** that we don't vote on but have representing us anyway....
and when you get a dozen experts on each one that lay out what needs to be done and you put it in front of the public so they can't have the will put over there pulled over their eyes actually have a plan. It's execute the whole thing will take at least 8 years of non-stop Focus after setting the goal and certain things will take longer but it's not about left and right anymore it's about giving us back a democracy....
And the barrier to entry? It’s not talent or effort anymore. It’s whether you can afford to play the political game just to get on the field.
That’s not capitalism.... Its gatekeeping.
The real divide isn’t left vs. right, it’s people vs. power. Corporations, politicians, and concentrated money protecting themselves.
We can fix it. It’s not irreversible. But it takes focus, transparency, and actual plans people can see and hold accountable.
Right now? It’s not a free market. It’s a controlled one.
Jeez man. I couldn’t have said this any better and you are right. It isn’t irreversible! There are actions and steps to take. I’m glad you’re using your voice and taking the initiative to make it know. I agree to the fullest it’s a power thing set up by the 1%-.5/.25 %. It’s goes so deep. Everyone needs to pull together to stop this front on the well being of the people. I’ll keep doing my part. You, yours. And hopefully our voices will lead to action. Because like you pointed out. It is doable, and very possible. Thank you for your reply sir. Means a lot
Hey man I'm just Rxan (Ryan) - no sir. And i'm going to start putting my face on camera , which is a hard habit to get into since I spent most of my life avoiding that which is another story but I've been through some things in life that I am certain most people will never go through but at the same time I know that if they did, they would look at the issue with less of a belief and more of an understanding, furthermore, their understanding would be a very similar. So while people take sides left and right they really just don't get it. It's power over people. Left and right is marketing. Anyone that's ever go off the streets of inner city and seeing somebody get killed for no reason . Anyone that's gone into one of their schools and met the kids and the teachers. Anyone that spent a night in jail. I think one that's at a bullet was by there head during a war that they don't understand. All these things or most of them are things that everyone can experience but not and no one bothers to . I'm not saying that all of them are easy or I would recommend but it really puts things in perspective and stops the argument and I'm trying to get people to think differently the problem is that most of them think that I'm an enemy once I say something that makes them uncomfortable so keep talking with me because I'm trying to build a subscriber list that reads like a roll call for revolution.
I love it. Keep going. You got this most certainly. The stories you just described are ones that though may be uncomfortable teach the most. I hear you. My life has been… well, something different too. But I commend you on your efforts, seriously.
In solidarity
Emmett
Hmmm.
It’s all of a piece. The drive for Monopoly Capitalism is almost genetic.
Fossil Fuels & over processed foods produced by huge corporations are part of the same problem & have been for at least 60 yrs.
Us hippies used to dumpster dive for food until they installed monster garbage machines.
The local “Farmer’s” Markets, “Pure Organic” & anti-processed foods movements grew out of our desire to side step the monopoly colossi that were delivering poison disguised as food.
Hyper vigilance and strict laws are a start. Right now the racist reactionary monopolists have control of the government & the officials & oversight structures have been captured by the corporate behemoths.
We have, in IT & the MCP - AI, so called, the tools to take back control. A MCP is the perfect watchdog, as long as it’s given the correct algorithms.
Leash & collar the Tech & Billionaire Bros & smash the monopolists.
Put the new tech in service of all of us.
We Shall Overcome
Resist
Avance la Lucha
I agree that concentrated power is the common thread. Monopolies rarely emerge in a vacuum. They often grow where corporate power and political power become intertwined. Corporate capture is real. Regulatory capture is real.
But government capture is also real.
That's why I tend to focus less on who holds the power and more on whether meaningful checks exist on that power.
The same question applies to Big Oil, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street, labor unions, political parties, intelligence agencies, and government bureaucracies:
Who watches the watchdogs?
History is full of examples where private monopolies abused power. It's also full of examples where centralized governments did the same.
The goal shouldn't be replacing one concentration of power with another. The goal should be dispersing power enough that no institution becomes too big to challenge.
That's where democracy, transparency, competition, local accountability, and independent journalism still matter.
The problem is monopoly power.
And most importantly, like Robert said. We will overcome in the first step is that we all get on the same page with this very big problem because I do believe it's number one on the list because everything trickles down from this.