Posted on 04/22/2022 9:53:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
"History doesn't repeat itself," Mark Twain observed, "but it often rhymes."
Twain's saying seems prophetic when comparing the Gilded Age monopolies he satirized to today's Big Tech monopolies.
Like the tycoons who built America's railroads, today's "digital railroad" companies like Google and Facebook that connect us online have generated unprecedented sums of wealth and power for just a handful of enterprises. Modern Robber Barons wear hoodies in Silicon Valley instead of top hats in the Rust Belt.
Make no mistake. These underdressed tech titans are the new aristocrats, and their monopolies pervade our lives in ways that Rockefeller and Vanderbilt could not have dreamed of. Big Tech hoards the digital data we provide to fuel their algorithms that keep us hooked on their products that drive their vast wealth.
However, the most palpable effect of Big Tech's impact on our lives is its transformation of our local communities. Small businesses, which give communities not only their jobs but also their character, are being driven out of business due to Big Tech's anti-competitive practices. During Big Tech's reign, the number of small retailers has fallen by 65,000, and today, three-quarters of independent retailers see Big Tech's dominance as a major threat to their survival.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The New Gilded Age needs Trump.
Period!
Bttt, the “Robber Barons” were enemies of the Progressive Government, but since the “Tech Giants” ARE PRODUCTS of the Progressive Government nothing will happen ...
Roosevelt?
The idiot spawn of the family that made their fortune in the Opium Wars? (Kind of Karma like that ChiCom Fentanyl is flowing back onto our shores . . ) The Socialist POS that couldn’t fix shiite until the Big Check Book of WWII came out?
No Thanks. I love America.
So does our PDJT, the GOAT.
MAGA is the way, the truth, and the light.
Twain never said that about history rhyming.
From quoteinvestigator.com:
“In conclusion, the earliest match for this popular quotation appeared in an essay by Theodor Reik in 1965. Currently, he is the leading candidate for coiner of the saying. The earliest attribution to Mark Twain appeared in 1970, but that date is many decades after his death. Hence, there is no substantive support for the Twain ascription.”
Only a worthless publication like Clownhall.com would ever publish a title & article like this...
Next it will claim we need another Kennedy, another Bush, or another Clinton to take on big tech...
Family political dynasties have led this Nation to its current surrender to Marxism and the associated tyranny...
“Gilded” doesn’t fit our tech lords. How about “Gelded Age?”
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