The Man Corporate America Is Most Afraid Of

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  • Опубліковано 5 бер 2024
  • The Department of Justice stopped Jetblue and Spirit from merging. Now they're coming for Apple, Google, and Ticketmaster.
    The man behind it is Jonathan Kanter - head of the DOJ's Antitrust Division.
    He's Wall Street's worst nightmare.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 621

  • @kdavidsmith1
    @kdavidsmith1 3 місяці тому +1092

    If corporate America hates him he must be doing something right.

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 3 місяці тому +44

      Exactly my thinking as well. Anything that upsets corporate America is good for actual Americans, full stop.

    • @RyanHarris77
      @RyanHarris77 3 місяці тому +23

      What an elegant litmus test

    • @toyotaprius79
      @toyotaprius79 3 місяці тому

      Time to take them to the wall

    • @vmtz2001
      @vmtz2001 3 місяці тому

      Trump and the GOP hate that too. They want more for corporate America and less for the working man with the excuse that the other is socialism

    • @gracejoy5339
      @gracejoy5339 3 місяці тому

      @kdavidsmith1 I agree. Still, why is a man Biden hired against corporations?

  • @matthewcaldwell8100
    @matthewcaldwell8100 3 місяці тому +761

    Anyone that Jim Cramer dislkes is automatically a good person.

    • @cw5001
      @cw5001 3 місяці тому +19

      I find him annoying.

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 3 місяці тому +7

      Absolutely.

    • @campbellpaul
      @campbellpaul 3 місяці тому +5

      Good people are too often the ones we choose to dislike in the west.. This one will have many hurdles to jump and attempts to discredit or get rid of him.

    • @matthewcaldwell8100
      @matthewcaldwell8100 3 місяці тому +12

      @@campbellpaul it’s adorable that you think this is a western problem

    • @landonferguson4632
      @landonferguson4632 3 місяці тому

      @@campbellpaul Cramer is an idot, its been documented that if follow his advice you will lose money. All he does is buy a stock then tells everyone else to buy that stock, stock price goes up from demand, he sells. Everyone who bought at the top is left holding the bag.

  • @teotronia
    @teotronia 3 місяці тому +327

    how to be a CEO: fleece your workforce, dodge your tax burden, and go attack democracy

    • @theboyisnotright6312
      @theboyisnotright6312 3 місяці тому +13

      And surprisingly, tho I'm sure it's coincidence the chairman's nephew is the only person who can do this so very hard job of CEO😊

    • @Gfish17
      @Gfish17 3 місяці тому

      I'm a CEO 😂.
      I literally have my own theme music.guess what track plays when I walk into the be room.

    • @1harrismccarty
      @1harrismccarty 3 місяці тому +6

      @@Gfish17 highway to hell?

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq 3 місяці тому +3

      And then claim your business is a good corporate citizen.

    • @user-ez1ic7ed4b
      @user-ez1ic7ed4b 3 місяці тому +2

      There's actually an answer to all of this. We can decide on regulations, tariffs and unions together, not through the apparatus of the Republic, but through the apparatus of an alliance of consumers, which, plainly, I call a Consumer's Alliance.
      We can operate as a collective boycott in this nation to keep wages high, prices low, regulations decent, and a union for every worker. We create a currency that we will refuse to exchange for others like the dollar, we have a direct democratic vote on who gets what, we can house the homeless and help the poor through slight inflation for a minimum income, all while punishing people who can work but refuse to. Top workers should make millions to, not just businessmen.

  • @justincase4812
    @justincase4812 3 місяці тому +166

    The myth is competition existing. Many industries are now "cartelized" and serve only to see prices increase not decrease.

    • @hopefulpellinore5490
      @hopefulpellinore5490 3 місяці тому +19

      Exactly. It's just a show for the masses, their priority is to maximize profits for one another and laugh all the way to the bank while people engage in yet more tribal or partisan behavior on their behalf. They basically can't lose.

    • @markd.9042
      @markd.9042 3 місяці тому +2

      Whether it does or doesn't, what they're doing isn't right.

    • @Clarkamadorian
      @Clarkamadorian 3 місяці тому +5

      And that’s why unions need to exist: they kind of “course correct” towards competition re-entering the market. It’s not “real” competition, but it functions similarly, as the workers tell the company that they ain’t workin unless they can feed their family tonight.
      Even if it’s only in the job market, the products themselves are still fine if they’re still being bought, and so it wouldn’t matter. Jobs are good, nation is good. Otherwise, you’re just ASKING for major wealth inequality.
      I think if anything, free market capitalism and unionization rights CAN and SHOULD go hand-in-hand. Unions are the natural cap/speed bump to any monopoly, allowing room for the little guy, and allowing the workers to live like human beings.

    • @peacefulpossum2438
      @peacefulpossum2438 3 місяці тому +5

      @@ClarkamadorianYes, and that is why corporations are working so hard to replace workers with robots.

    • @Clarkamadorian
      @Clarkamadorian 3 місяці тому +4

      @@peacefulpossum2438 yup. That’s why we should also have some kind of automation tax: if it’s not as profitable to have robots, the company may reconsider. There are moral implications, like “does a person own what a robot makes,” but I’m more concerned with the economic impacts personally. It’d allow more people jobs instead of robot jobs.
      Unions also help, but if automation tax is implemented, going through the process of making a union for less robots taking jobs wouldn’t be as necessary, it’d help the workers.

  • @julioperez1850
    @julioperez1850 3 місяці тому +235

    Companies making their workers sign no compete agreements??!! That's outrageous!! Not only they won't give you a raise, but you also can't leave either to get a better paying job to use your skills in because of a document your employer made you sign!! More and more companies are treating their workers like commodities to exploit in their never-ending quest to maximize profits!!

    • @ScuubaSteefe
      @ScuubaSteefe 3 місяці тому

      Corporations are fast tracking a society where we own nothing while they own everything. Regulations need to stop all of this IMMEDIATELY

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 3 місяці тому +31

      Because that's all employees actually are to most of them. They didn't used to have that kind of power, but this is what blanket deregulation gets you. People suddenly become commodities, and there's always someone out there willing to settle for less.

    • @Jabid21
      @Jabid21 3 місяці тому +18

      There should be a minimum salary threshold (at least $200k) for that to be enforceable and it also should include a payout of salary equal to the amount of time the noncompete is in effect or a charge a fee to buy out of it if another company tries to poach or hire that employee.

    • @guyincognito7211
      @guyincognito7211 3 місяці тому +1

      Where are all the "right to work" conservative assholes?

    • @Urziel99
      @Urziel99 3 місяці тому +13

      The only good thing I can say about Oklahoma is that those types of non-compete agreements are illegal here. The only kind that are enforceable are those that prevent back soliciting. i.e. I worked for your company to get it's client list then go to a competitor to offer the same goods to you customers, using what i learned working for you to my advantage.

  • @vmtz2001
    @vmtz2001 3 місяці тому +284

    These are the unelected bureaucrats the GOP complains about. The big government guys who watch out for the little guy. The unsung heroes of a true democracy.

    • @chippysteve4524
      @chippysteve4524 3 місяці тому

      Yep which is why the same US neocons worked 'for free' to drive a wedge between the UK and Europe.Deregulate.Divide.Devour.
      When we fight for freedom,we should be clearer that it means freedom to live safe from the T-Rex not freedom for T-Rexs ;-)

    • @PerryWagle
      @PerryWagle 3 місяці тому +14

      They need to complain about their unelected orange king bossing them around.

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому

      They punish businesses for the crime of being successful. "Being for the little guy" is not justification for violating rights

    • @PerryWagle
      @PerryWagle 3 місяці тому +28

      @@maximemeis2867 So competition is bad? Inflation stemming from price gouging from monopolies is good?

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому

      @@PerryWagle competition is a result of freedom. That s it. If you don t think there s enough competition in a sector, feel free to enter it, compete and lower prices. But you have no right to demand competition and lower prices at gun point.

  • @eringo-bragh4243
    @eringo-bragh4243 3 місяці тому +382

    Republicans always cry about competition, but conglomerates do the opposite along with mergers (oh & the Rich). Support small businesses & workers

    • @pagandragon830
      @pagandragon830 3 місяці тому

      But Dems don't do anything about that either and LOVE a good merger that screws the middle class while upping their portfolio values. Corporations will say, "If we're bigger we can supply more & create lower prices" when in actuality it allows them to charge whatever they want because they have no competition - witness the price gouging going on at grocery stores right now and then look at how few owners of those stores there truly are. And our corrupt AF politicians on BOTH sides are investing in them due to inside information. They are literally insider trading with no repercussions!!! The only check they have is if WE pay attention and vote their asses out.

    • @MMuraseofSandvich
      @MMuraseofSandvich 3 місяці тому +14

      They're marketers, they never let facts or the truth get in the way of a persuasive narrative.

    • @pagandragon830
      @pagandragon830 3 місяці тому +6

      @@MMuraseofSandvich Even if that narrative is based, in whole or part, on lies.

    • @g1eagle
      @g1eagle 3 місяці тому

      They cry about a lot of things with one hand, and then feed the rich with the other behind their backs. There crying keeps there base voting against there own intrests.

    • @TNTkeynine
      @TNTkeynine 3 місяці тому

      Republicans are built to whine, they don't fix issues, they whine. They're literally blocking THEIR immigration bill because they don't wanna increase Biden's poll numbers.

  • @jborth2010
    @jborth2010 3 місяці тому +39

    As a software engineer, these algorithms that predict the maximum cost companies can squeeze out of people make me sick. I understand making programs to help maximize profits but you'd have to make these algorithms with knowing what they do. Some heartless people out there.

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому +1

      Oh no, people wanting to get as much value for the value they provide in return. How terrible

    • @genius11433
      @genius11433 3 місяці тому

      ​@@maximemeis2867When you charge two different people two different prices for the exact same good simply because you CAN, then yes, it is horrible.

    • @wavejumper3
      @wavejumper3 Місяць тому

      Here's the thing: we have no say. There's nothing the people can do within our current legal system to combat this. Water now costs $50 a gallon, what are you gonna do? Die of thirst? (Hypothetical example, good lord i hope nobodys dumb enough to think im saying water literally costs 50 bucks)

  • @HanNguyen-vn1fj
    @HanNguyen-vn1fj 3 місяці тому +47

    What does this man need. Let’s get this man what he needs so that our needs will be met. Hopefully in my damn lifetime.

  • @matthewcaldwell8100
    @matthewcaldwell8100 3 місяці тому +69

    I will never understand empty suits believe that automating predatory tactics makes them compelling to the rest of us.

    • @RevShifty
      @RevShifty 3 місяці тому +14

      Most people don't have a choice but to tangentially support them. They own most things must Americans use, need, or eat. You have to be an extremely conscientious and informed consumer to avoid all of them, and for everyone one of those they lose they'll pick up 3 more just from being the only real option.
      It's terrible, but that's just how enmeshed many of these conglomerates actually are.

    • @joso7228
      @joso7228 3 місяці тому +6

      And yet here we are on Google's UA-cam.

    • @kaijuultimax9407
      @kaijuultimax9407 3 місяці тому +2

      @@RevShifty We have a word for that, it's called a monopoly.

    • @michaeld4861
      @michaeld4861 3 місяці тому +1

      They ain't appealing to us as consumers and peasants. They just need to make it compelling for "investors".

    • @07wrxtr1
      @07wrxtr1 2 місяці тому

      Because they couldn’t get the hot girl in high school so they spend the rest of their lives operating with an inferiority complex.
      These are the same guys whos wifey is cheating on them because no amount of money will make up for their deep insecurity and psychosis

  • @blanchecuevasramos7970
    @blanchecuevasramos7970 3 місяці тому +210

    This is an eye opener! Why doesn’t the “news” present this!!??

    • @raikoh05
      @raikoh05 3 місяці тому +37

      Oh you know why

    • @tvxingaming1757
      @tvxingaming1757 3 місяці тому

      Democrats are the ones doing this bs behind the scenes n he’s the only one who’s clearly tired of wasting money like the rest of us…why would the rest wanna do that when they’re trying to go against a businessman like trump??

    • @thelightningwave
      @thelightningwave 3 місяці тому

      The same people that buy out politicians also buy the news.

    • @chernobyl169
      @chernobyl169 3 місяці тому

      Because the "news" is part of the problem.

    • @kevinkelly1586
      @kevinkelly1586 3 місяці тому

      The news media pretend to be on the side of the "oppressed," but we now know better. Social media, despite the pros & cons, are a threat to the one-sided "mainstream" media, controlled by the plutocrats.

  • @caninesofcork
    @caninesofcork 3 місяці тому +28

    Greed is the one thing that is already ruining this world more than anything else

  • @campbellpaul
    @campbellpaul 3 місяці тому +43

    This man fits into one of four categories of people I have discovered in my quest to understand Western Civilization better. He is one of the wary, the one who looks after the welfare of others before himself.
    In my quest, I have discovered also the dangerous people who stand to discredit (or eliminate) him, which is why we should follow him and his work very closely.
    Ralph Nader, Daniel Ellsberg, and very few others would fit into his category.

    • @EbonySaints
      @EbonySaints 3 місяці тому +1

      Just curious, what are the other three categories?

    • @campbellpaul
      @campbellpaul 3 місяці тому

      @@EbonySaints I call the first category simply "the dangerous ones"; they are predatory sociopaths who wish to take advantage of others for their utilities, designs or their money, and they will discard or eliminate them afterwards.
      The second category are the ones directly targeted with lies and false promises, those who fall for the pitch and the false sincerity.
      The third make up those who are uncategorized and unaware of what is going on, or have no art or money to give up as of yet, i.e. children.

    • @campbellpaul
      @campbellpaul 3 місяці тому +1

      It could be stated also that these four categories fit into every culture, but I'm not that worldly to state that is the case.

  • @stodo1337
    @stodo1337 3 місяці тому +137

    Corporations are a blight on our society, health, and well being

    • @ericjohnson6665
      @ericjohnson6665 3 місяці тому +6

      Yes, under the current corporate laws. But the concept of corporations has actually been a benefit to western society. Creating business entities whose futures are not tied to any one individual, makes for continuity of serve.
      The issue is greed. Most humans suffer from a bit of that inclination. For a time, religion did have some modulating effect on it, but as institutionalized religions allowed themselves to become greedy, that modulation evaporated.
      We're almost at the point where we don't need lawmakers, as it is theoretically possible for direct citizen participation in the enactment of laws, if the public were politically educated. That "if" is the major stumbling block, as so many people don't want to be bothered to have to think about the big picture, thus "representative" government continues to exist. And it largely "represents" the corporate interests, not local constituents, in large part, due to gerrymandering.

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому

      If so, stop dealing with them. Nobody forces you to deal with them. Make the choice of only dealing with coops and tell us how much your life improves (it won't).

    • @Alex-cq1zr
      @Alex-cq1zr 3 місяці тому

      ​@@maximemeis2867 very bad faith moment. "You hate that this shirt is made by pieces of shit?! Then go shirtless muahahha"
      It's the usual "why does 'voting with money' almost never works in reality?"

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому

      @@Alex-cq1zr not bad faith at all. Nobody forces you to deal with any particular shirt manufacturer. Feel free to buy your shirts from a coop that follows the "from each to his ability to his according to his needs" mentra

    • @donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495
      @donkeykongisbetterthanmari7495 3 місяці тому

      @@maximemeis2867just buy from good sources lol

  • @michaelalmasian4710
    @michaelalmasian4710 3 місяці тому +47

    It’s overdue to call this overdue.
    Bravo!

    • @emmahilburn1732
      @emmahilburn1732 2 місяці тому +1

      Holy crap it's LONG overdue. If you want another big pro-consumer court case, look up Robert "Skeeter" Salim and his BlueCross health insurance lawsuit.

  • @arxaaron
    @arxaaron 3 місяці тому +15

    First time I've heard a public official call it "chokepoint capitalism". Very encouraging to here the brilliant economic analysis of Cory Doctorow's book "Chokepoint Capitalism" making it into the mainstream.

  • @Jinchuricki27
    @Jinchuricki27 3 місяці тому +79

    A middleman that controls prices? That doesn't sound like a free market at all. Why is their existence even being tolerated?

    • @pierregravel-primeau702
      @pierregravel-primeau702 3 місяці тому

      Like how subsidies, tarifs and bail out are tolerated in a free market? Because free market don't work and is propaganda for ultra poor nations to make them sell ressources at a super low price to corporations.

    • @J0vile
      @J0vile 3 місяці тому +17

      For the same reason congressmen can hold stocks. Because the rule of greed is to powerful.

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq 3 місяці тому +2

      Why are monopolies also tolerated? Maybe those mega dollar campaign contributions to politicians have something to do with it?

    • @avfeland
      @avfeland 2 місяці тому

      Because we're maintaining grassroots communities and buying directly from locals or producing things ourselves whenever possible.

    • @J0vile
      @J0vile Місяць тому

      ​@@avfeland Tell us that you work for Amazon without telling us you work for Amazon. Way to tell us the video is lying and that leeches that live off the labor of others should be celebrated because they are doing the exact opposite of what they are accused of in the video. Thank you for your shilling, I hope that paycheck treats you well.

  • @Craxin01
    @Craxin01 3 місяці тому +14

    Greed destroys everything but being a good person is very cost effective.

  • @Ek0
    @Ek0 3 місяці тому +66

    Gotta send this man a gift basket. Doing gods work.

    • @judysmith1696
      @judysmith1696 2 місяці тому +1

      Doing THE PEOPLE’S WORK!
      Lets leave god out of it!

  • @SplitScreamOFFICIAL
    @SplitScreamOFFICIAL 3 місяці тому +31

    Good to see we have watchdogs out there

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq 3 місяці тому

      No if only the alleged journalistic "watchdogs" weren't just docile lapdogs on a tight corporate leash!

  • @AGirlofYesterday
    @AGirlofYesterday 3 місяці тому +11

    "They've never seen anything like this." That's only because the current corporate tycoons are too young to remember pre-Reaganomics, when these regulations used to be enforced!

  • @alexw4482
    @alexw4482 3 місяці тому +18

    Bring back innovation and competition! Break up the monopolies.

  • @heinzbaron9129
    @heinzbaron9129 3 місяці тому +11

    One sliver of good news in an ocean of misery.

  • @TheOG-GG
    @TheOG-GG 3 місяці тому +27

    This is fabulous coverage. Thank you for keeping us informed. I've been so mad at the DOJ for all they have been letting domestic terrorists get away with. Nice to know some departments are doing their job properly!

  • @mb7503
    @mb7503 3 місяці тому +35

    Thank you for keeping us informed.

  • @PDZ1122
    @PDZ1122 3 місяці тому +19

    I've also often wondered how commodity trading is even legal. A few people have given themselves the power to buy vast quantities of materials we all need and use, using money they don't have , holding it hostage for a while and then re-selling it to us at a huge profit. Why the hell do we allow this?

  • @ryandavis7593
    @ryandavis7593 3 місяці тому +30

    Google needs to be broken up!

  • @botdfisdabomb
    @botdfisdabomb 3 місяці тому +11

    More of Kater! We need people who are willing to stand up to these companies that are bleeding us dry

  • @cindyrussell8732
    @cindyrussell8732 3 місяці тому +16

    Please do a longer video (like the one on PBMs) covering the impact of these middle companies. It is easy even for a well informed person to miss these background players.

  • @theprecipiceofreason
    @theprecipiceofreason 3 місяці тому +54

    "We made a machine that does crimes for us."
    "Look at it go! Oh boy! I guess I'll take all this money!"
    "Good thing were not doing crimes."

  • @reginaerekson9139
    @reginaerekson9139 3 місяці тому +19

    3:56 it’s not just that, it’s everyone who follows to increase their prices by keeping pace and not even reinvesting anything into the property. Not everyone who owns residential real estate is a business genius- mostly they seem to use Zillow or Craigslist to see what any other random property is renting for. Not all studios, 1/2/3 bedrooms are created equal- location, neighbors, amenities and every nitpicking surcharge built into 1 year leases that increase annually. Shelter should not be a capitalist opportunity, it’s a human right for survival and health. That’s how housing subsidies don’t help.

  • @AMcGrath82
    @AMcGrath82 3 місяці тому +37

    But what can we do to help? Are there any movements we can volunteer for or join to support?

    • @ciello___8307
      @ciello___8307 3 місяці тому +9

      Call your local representatives. Tell them to speak out against monopolies

    • @JSi6
      @JSi6 3 місяці тому +12

      Vote for politicians that appoint and approve these types of people.

    • @760mom
      @760mom 3 місяці тому +10

      I voted for Porter and Adam Shit won. Money rules. We need to keep fighting and not give up.

    • @erikaverink8418
      @erikaverink8418 3 місяці тому +8

      Vote Democratic on all levels (judges is an important one)

    • @thecianinator
      @thecianinator 3 місяці тому +9

      Vote for Biden. Cuz you know Trump will install someone in this guy's job who's gonna undo all this progress.

  • @lunatik9696
    @lunatik9696 3 місяці тому +9

    Corps are worried someone might actually enforce the law?
    Didn't we pay you to not let that happen?

  • @lewchishelltaya5745
    @lewchishelltaya5745 3 місяці тому +33

    I first realized the AI algorithm was silently haggling me on price when I shopped on Amazon. The longer I would scroll through products, it would eventually show me the same item at a lower cost, and longer, a lower cost, and longer, a lower cost, until it was one I'd pay.

    • @NoName-ik2du
      @NoName-ik2du 3 місяці тому +1

      Interesting, I'll have to try this. My only experience with changing prices is the occasional "flash deal" (or something like that) where the item goes on sale for about fifteen minutes with a countdown timer to try to pressure me into buying.

    • @MeRia035
      @MeRia035 3 місяці тому +1

      Yep. I've noticed it's the same exact item (descriptions are word for word) but a different & very weird company name.

    • @lewchishelltaya5745
      @lewchishelltaya5745 3 місяці тому +4

      Yeah, on eBay too. The big corporations like home Depot, office Depot, Walmart, target, etc the same thing. Don't share your location!

    • @JoseLopez-tk4tq
      @JoseLopez-tk4tq 3 місяці тому +1

      Same here. Gotta be SEO fuckery at work here!

  • @reginaerekson9139
    @reginaerekson9139 3 місяці тому +17

    0:58 it’s true I’ve never heard of Jonathan Kanter - but I already really really love him. Maybe I’ll get his name tattooed on my lower back later today 😂

    • @dragon1130
      @dragon1130 3 місяці тому +3

      Maybe hold off on the tattoo. You don't wanna do something you regreat later on down the line. It may seem like a good Idea, but then, a few months later, when you've forgotten you tattooed your back, you'll look in the mirror and see Retnak Nahtanoj and think to yourself "Which Star Wars character was this again?" lol

    • @chey7691
      @chey7691 3 місяці тому +1

      It's not the man exactly but what he stands for that is impressive, not everyone has the integrity or daring to do what he does. But it does take someone brave with vision. Take the things that make him great or perhaps his message.

  • @fmcg5364
    @fmcg5364 3 місяці тому +3

    Thanks for this, it is so rare to have someone on the side of the consumer

  • @EvilWeiRamirez
    @EvilWeiRamirez 3 місяці тому +3

    They aren't scared enough. He needs more support.

  • @Puzekat2
    @Puzekat2 3 місяці тому +7

    The intermediaries are sucking, too much money out of the industry, especially healthcare, especially healthcare, especially healthcare.

    • @murraymadness4674
      @murraymadness4674 3 місяці тому

      For sure healthcare is a massive money sucking profit making scheme, with admin/overhead like 4x more than actual cost of care

  • @jiffyb333
    @jiffyb333 3 місяці тому +17

    How have I never heard about this man and what his department has been up to?!

    • @pagandragon830
      @pagandragon830 3 місяці тому

      Because state run propaganda is rampant here in the US!! Media outlets are corporations and they need advertisers (also corporations) to keep their networks running - as opposed to independent media who relies on their viewers to buy memberships or subscribe and therefore report actual facts. The advertisers (again, corporations) like certain narratives and make sure media presents those narratives. In fact, the news actors get millions per year to lie to us. If those actors don't do as they are told they end up getting fired - like Cenk who now runs TYT but came from MSNBC or Mehdi Hasan who is starting his own thing after Israel had a fit over his reporting of the genocide in Gaza and he quit before getting fired from the same network. There are TONS of good independent media out there but lots of right wing funded ones too so be careful. Farron Balanced, The Damage Report, The Majority Report, The Ring of Fire (ROF), Thom Hartmann, Brian Tyler Cohen, Meidas Touch, etc. are all free on UA-cam with paid memberships if you like and want to support them or super chats and donations either through their websites or Patreon.

    • @pierregravel-primeau702
      @pierregravel-primeau702 3 місяці тому +8

      Propaganda in the Media. Propaganda in Education. Anti-trust is a pivotal role in healthy capitalism, like unions...

    • @pagandragon830
      @pagandragon830 3 місяці тому +3

      @@pierregravel-primeau702 AMEN (other than capitalism - not great here since it crushes the middle class who doesn't have the capital to be a capitalist but thinks they do)!!!!
      From the spouse of a union carpenter. ☮

    • @campbellpaul
      @campbellpaul 3 місяці тому

      I assume his work became the defacto push against what Trump began doing while in office.. as a result of that.

  • @harshithsadhana7475
    @harshithsadhana7475 3 місяці тому +3

    Protect this man. He can save America

  • @gamtngirl3655
    @gamtngirl3655 25 днів тому +1

    More Perfect Union is now my favorite UA-cam channel. Thank you so much.

  • @ckevorkianxo
    @ckevorkianxo 3 місяці тому +5

    Where’ve the been hiding this man. He should have round the clock security. Lord knows the corporations will make a move on him. Imagine if someone like this ran for president ? Like IMAGINE, us actually standing a chance 😭

    • @theboyisnotright6312
      @theboyisnotright6312 3 місяці тому

      There is! RFK Jr is for all this. look into him as canadate for president 2024

    • @ckevorkianxo
      @ckevorkianxo 3 місяці тому

      @@theboyisnotright6312 I’ll have to check him out… Thank you

    • @chickenbutt420
      @chickenbutt420 2 місяці тому +1

      @@theboyisnotright6312 I know very little about RFK Jr. From what I heard, his platform is alt-right, conspiratorial anti-vax nonsense. Is he pro-worker anti-trust? I will definitely look into him.

  • @smdutt
    @smdutt 3 місяці тому +5

    You should cover the federal reserve and all their bank bailouts, BTFP, and how they are not enforcing adequate bank regulations like they are supposed to. Not to mention how their too-low rates for too long led to the fall of SVB, and how their purchases of MBS led to our continuing housing crisis. Thanks for all your work!

  • @crazy9932
    @crazy9932 3 місяці тому +9

    If they hate our laws so much why don't these buisnesses leave?

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому +1

      What about power lusters like you stop violating their rights? What about if you hate businesses, you stop dealing with them.

    • @crazy9932
      @crazy9932 3 місяці тому +1

      @@maximemeis2867 sorry people have rights, show me where in the constitution a buisness has rights

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому +1

      @@crazy9932 businesses are people. The fact that people decide to put together resources and effort into a productive activity (a business) does not deprive them of their rights. Besides there s no such thing as the right to violate the property rights or the freedom of association of others.

    • @crazy9932
      @crazy9932 3 місяці тому +1

      @@maximemeis2867 nope no where in the constitution did it say a buisness has a right. Also owning a buisness isnt a right its a privlage

    • @Alex-cq1zr
      @Alex-cq1zr 3 місяці тому

      ​@@maximemeis2867 Businesses aren't people. They are hierarchical structures which require people to function and which are owned by a small group of people (who usually were born rich and thus can start big businesses) who get lots of money without doing an equivalent amount of work through taking that money from workers.
      In this sense, capitalist system creates a middle age style division into rich nobles and poor peasants.
      And, in the end, we see these rich people, modern age nobles, most born into high status and living by making high status hard to reach for others, actively use their influence and wealth to harm rights of poor people to preserve their status and keep getting richer faster.
      Not a usa-only problem at all, mind you.
      Usa just has some of the most shameless exercises of authoritarian power granted by money with lobbying being done to bleed people of their hard-earned money.
      Why does usa still have this weird "we know how much money you have to pay in taxes, but you gotta count it yourself"? Because companies which profit off this lobby hard to prevent this from changing, harming the common person and violating democracy. Preventing a fix to the system, as it will be very unprofitable for them

  • @jriding425
    @jriding425 3 місяці тому +14

    Cable internet monopoly

  • @cindymora6714
    @cindymora6714 3 місяці тому +8

    The rest of the world needs to know about this strategies because they are coming for us too

  • @amybly1400
    @amybly1400 3 місяці тому +3

    So...theres this thing called price gouging, and its ILLEGAL. Surge pricing and the like should be illegal.

  • @matthewrayes3694
    @matthewrayes3694 3 місяці тому +2

    The airline industry has essentially done this for decades, directly and through more tech-savy third-party sellers that can increase prices drastically based on a measure of perceived urgency and other behavior related to making a purchase.
    Beyond price, search engines and social media platforms arguably do this with their own biases and user history, controlling the flow of information to an extent, especially in segments that believe the first headline they read.
    So long as data can give companies a competitive edge, good luck trying to curtail their use, especially if the data is publicly available or legally obtained. The first related battle was for consumer privacy and these unfair pricing practices are the casualty of having lost it.

  • @a_d_a_m
    @a_d_a_m 3 місяці тому +1

    I’m so glad to see the housing price-fixing scam is being taken seriously and getting more attention. Also glad to see you getting a great interview like this. Thanks!

  • @r8chlletters
    @r8chlletters 3 місяці тому +2

    Amazon has been doing this for many years-if you leave something in your cart it will go up or down based on what their AI thinks you can pay for it.

  • @TheZectorian
    @TheZectorian 3 місяці тому +2

    Just a reminder, tell UA-cam this content is worth pushing by going through their videos and watching a few more that interest you

  • @lesliewubbel9157
    @lesliewubbel9157 3 місяці тому +4

    More news like this!

  • @theunspeakable24
    @theunspeakable24 3 місяці тому +2

    You guys are ffantastic!

  • @kathyperry5787
    @kathyperry5787 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for this interview.
    Mr Kanter, Thank you so much for the work that you are doing!!!!

  • @calebrobinson6406
    @calebrobinson6406 3 місяці тому +5

    Non compete but also no mobility in a business. If that doesn't sum up all the problems with capitalism

  • @ey67
    @ey67 3 місяці тому +5

    Gee why doesn't the corporate lame stream media cover this 🤔

    • @joso7228
      @joso7228 3 місяці тому +2

      Because they would be attacking their own Bosses.

  • @stephencurry8552
    @stephencurry8552 3 місяці тому +1

    Great interview. Enlightening to know such people exist, working for the betterment of our nation as a whole.

  • @JohnTravena
    @JohnTravena 2 місяці тому +1

    Would like to see more like this. Thanks for covering it.

  • @sinjinreed2091
    @sinjinreed2091 3 місяці тому +3

    As much as I'd like to believe in this guy, he's basically fighting an uphill battle with the Martians from _War of the Worlds_ naked with an empty flintlock pistol and a rusty spoon.
    I really don't see how we can fix anything in this country without throwing everything away and starting from scratch.

    • @AB-wf8ek
      @AB-wf8ek 3 місяці тому

      It's a good thing you don't work for the antitrust division then

    • @chey7691
      @chey7691 3 місяці тому +1

      He's just one of the brave leading the charge, take heart and take an example from him. Rally behind the cause and find groups that would do the same. Divide and conquer ring a bell? That's what politicians on behalf of corporations have been doing.

  • @aquathelynx962
    @aquathelynx962 3 місяці тому +1

    Anytime those people get upset at something it's a good sign

  • @danschoenharl3856
    @danschoenharl3856 3 місяці тому +1

    Bless you Mr. Kanter!
    The playing field has become inceasingly unlevel for average Americans.
    This needs to change.
    Things are, after all, built from the ground up, not the top down.
    We'll all be better off from a little monopoly busting.

  • @climateteacherjohnj7763
    @climateteacherjohnj7763 3 місяці тому

    As a science teacher and climate activist, I deeply appreciate what More Perfect Union is doing with this kind of reporting. This is climate action. Many people may not see that connection but, having been in trenches, seeing what the oil industry has done to communities and to the planet, I can assure you, it is!

  • @GladysAlicea
    @GladysAlicea Місяць тому

    Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful man and his dedication to Americans, something that was once a given for civil service and government employees, trashed and robbed by corporate America. I love Jonathan Kanter; a true patriot almost impossible to find in the hidden haystack of a free market without competition. If that survives, we're done.

  • @peternyc
    @peternyc 3 місяці тому +1

    MORE MORE MORE!!!! Such an important topic.

  • @carsonwieker
    @carsonwieker 3 місяці тому

    Thanks for your work MPU, cheers!

  • @oneofus6924
    @oneofus6924 3 місяці тому +1

    we can completely say if it makes corporations mad and scared, I am a full supporter of it.

  • @hawk7780
    @hawk7780 3 місяці тому +1

    Finally, the DOJ doing its job and helping the American people. He is actually preventing the stock market from crashing...hey rich people do you want a depression, you will if you have monopolies. We need competition it is econ 101.

  • @mtn1793
    @mtn1793 3 місяці тому

    This is the face of real responsibility. Something that Wall Street is structurally and now morally incapable of. Bravo strong government! It’s a matter of collective self protection!

  • @b_dawg_17
    @b_dawg_17 3 місяці тому +1

    I learned in my Microeconomics class what it's called when you can extract the most money possible out of every customer: a perfect monopoly.

  • @narkelnaru2710
    @narkelnaru2710 3 місяці тому

    Fantastic coverage. Well done. ✊🏽

  • @Greg-nq4dj
    @Greg-nq4dj 3 місяці тому +8

    Love the way this video keeps shutting down after 3 or 4 seconds it must have a lot of truth that UA-cam doesn't want out

    • @missingsig
      @missingsig 3 місяці тому +6

      no greg its your internet

    • @lelaine61
      @lelaine61 3 місяці тому

      😆

    • @AK-47ISTHEWAY
      @AK-47ISTHEWAY 3 місяці тому +1

      You just forgot to pay your internet bill.

    • @joso7228
      @joso7228 3 місяці тому

      In fairness YT are letting this play. And there is a Video about YT Union Members being Fired in the middle of a Council Hearing going around too.
      ua-cam.com/video/pZBtjNGes6s/v-deo.html

    • @Greg-nq4dj
      @Greg-nq4dj 3 місяці тому

      @@joso7228 I spend a lot more time on rumble and bitchute to be real about it but I just got to call them as I see them

  • @woolfel
    @woolfel 26 днів тому +1

    you can thank Amazon for this approach being mainstream. Amazon didn't invent the idea, but they pioneered how to do it efficiently. Lots of companies followed Amazon and now we see this approach being applied every where. Dynamic pricing, surge pricing and lots of other cute business names for "how do we ream customers?"

  • @crptnite
    @crptnite 3 місяці тому +1

    Unless the algorithms are going to be used to charge people on a sliding scale based on their individual ability to pay, the algorithms should be illegal.

  • @GreatDaneLoverz
    @GreatDaneLoverz 3 місяці тому +1

    When corporate America merges, the consumer always looses. Competition keeps prices low. Look at medication prices as a prime example

    • @maximemeis2867
      @maximemeis2867 3 місяці тому

      You are not entitled to lower prices. Lower prices for consumers is not a valid justification for violating the rights of producers. Businesses have every right to merge. If you think their prices and profits are too high, feel free to enter their market and compete.

    • @Alex-cq1zr
      @Alex-cq1zr 3 місяці тому

      ​@@maximemeis2867 Dude, how much do they pay for boot polishing these days?

  • @someoneyouknow3271
    @someoneyouknow3271 3 місяці тому

    Another incredible video! Thank you

  • @lopiid
    @lopiid 3 місяці тому +1

    Jonathan Kanter, my new hero!

  • @Akac3sh
    @Akac3sh 3 місяці тому +1

    i hope in our life time this man has his chance to lead the country

  • @DistractedDaisy
    @DistractedDaisy 3 місяці тому

    Excellent work.

  • @kittycomentator282
    @kittycomentator282 2 місяці тому +1

    Great episode

  • @DrJohnnyJ
    @DrJohnnyJ Місяць тому +1

    Corporations love competition when it is workers competing for jobs or consumers competing for scarce goods. But, as Adam Smith noted in "Wealth of Nations", when two businessmen meet, they conspire to fix prices,

  • @buzzardscry1383
    @buzzardscry1383 3 місяці тому +3

    Hell yeah

  • @yossarianmnichols9641
    @yossarianmnichols9641 3 місяці тому +1

    I don't think this guy will win many when the SCOTUS was put together with those same corporate employees.

  • @emiliog.4432
    @emiliog.4432 3 місяці тому +2

    Really? Why was Luxottica allowed to consolidate so much power? Why is the military industrial complex allowed to rip off taxpayers? No audits. Food companies, lenders, Google, etc… less competition today. The housing market. Big pharma. Free market? Rigged market.

  • @oldreprobate2748
    @oldreprobate2748 3 місяці тому +1

    Why isn't private equity in front of the courts for their monopoly and destruction of the real-estate markets and the hospital network?

  • @unperuanoenlascarreterasde9964
    @unperuanoenlascarreterasde9964 3 місяці тому +1

    I have hopes . Still we have a good humans everywhere. Few , but good . Really good people .

  • @rrmackay
    @rrmackay 3 місяці тому +2

    They haven't enforced a single anti-trust action in decades.
    They have filed plenty of cases but none of them have resulted in a breakup of anything significant
    if this guy is the hero you claim maybe he should start actually winning and changing things ?

  • @MegaSnail1
    @MegaSnail1 2 місяці тому

    I love you Jonathan Kanter. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  • @agoniaXdunya
    @agoniaXdunya 3 місяці тому

    I love this channel.

  • @GeriAttric
    @GeriAttric 3 місяці тому +1

    It's about f'n time!

  • @delongbear
    @delongbear 3 місяці тому +1

    A TRUE HERO FOR THE REAL AMERICA

  • @Imblakeimblakethatsrght
    @Imblakeimblakethatsrght 3 місяці тому

    this absolutely awesome to see

  • @bonniegaither3994
    @bonniegaither3994 3 місяці тому +1

    So, at what point do these algorithms price everyone out of everything?

  • @anishphi1
    @anishphi1 3 місяці тому +4

    They say show who your friends are and I'll tell you what you are. Nah. Show me who your enemies are.
    Ridin with Biden baby

  • @HarvestStore
    @HarvestStore 3 місяці тому

    Great video.

  • @cosmlayla
    @cosmlayla 3 місяці тому

    More of this!

  • @khagnnorran7745
    @khagnnorran7745 3 місяці тому

    like the presentation!

  • @brooks8792
    @brooks8792 3 місяці тому +1

    I am surprised they are working on this, but not seeing any lack of excess consolidation of corporations. Work more, its a mess.

  • @JasonGoodfellow
    @JasonGoodfellow 3 місяці тому

    Scared is an overstatement.
    There'll be a backlash that defangs this typeof work, if it isn't already.

  • @Ocker3
    @Ocker3 2 місяці тому

    This guy is an awesome defender of Democracy and the people

  • @jordanfarr3157
    @jordanfarr3157 3 місяці тому +1

    Wow!! You guys have some really impressive access! How do you get these kinds of interviews??