By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026That's because modern monopolies are likewise global, running the same scam in every country that they operate in. It wasn't like this during the era of the first Robber Barons. 6/ 1311
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil had many of the world's economies in chokeholds, but each country got its own, national chokehold. In the US, Standard Oil monopolized pipelines and refineries, but it found different chokepoints in other countries. 7/ 1210
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026For example, in Germany, Rockefeller monopolized the ports: pluralistic.net/2022/09/24/s... This meant that American and German enforcers had very little to say to one another. 8/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 24 Sep 2022 Billionare grifters hate her – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1190
