Its The Scale Stupid-Why The Cult of Big’s Monopolies Must End! – The Mike Church Show

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Human Scale –

• Rick Barrett accused me of having a PTSD from being passed by a big truck everyday. (see commentary from yesterday’s show)
• Keep putting bigger and bigger vehicles on the road, they will have to be maintained.

TRIVIA QUESTION: What is the standard width of a highway lane today? 12 feet

• Why don’t we just expand those lanes to 20 feet?
• Many of our issues we see today is due to scale.

HEADLINE: Against Bigness? Begin By Breaking Up Big Tech by Daniel Kishi

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, Tim Wu, Columbia Global Reports, 154 pages

• The Market doesn’t solve all problems!
• It is incapable, it is a THING and ism. Only man guided by morality can properly regulate markets.
• Microbrewery in Louisiana Crying Eagle with our Latin Mass friends from Duson.
• Sam Adams is no longer a microbrewery.
• Small is Still Beautiful –
• Americans in the back of their minds have figured this out.
• The Big Tech firms of Amazon (internet retail and cloud computing), Facebook (digital advertising), and Google (search engines, digital advertising, and the flow of information) are obvious offenders.

• Four companies control 73 percent of the domestic airline market.
• Two companies control 78 percent of the American corn seed market.
• Three companies make nearly 90 percent of all pacemakers.

• There is a difference between ‘scale’ and ‘monopolies’.

FLASH SALES – you will get an email again this afternoon. Flash Sales are FLASH! They don’t last all weekend or all day. They are super discounted for a ‘brief’ period of time only.