• Erk@cdda.social
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    1 year ago

    It kinda reminds me of what happened to rural buses in Canada. We had small bus companies going all over the place. Greyhound bought them all out and ran the whole thing as a monopoly for a few years.

    Then they decided it was too much trouble and shut the operations down.

    For the last twenty years there are no rural buses at all. If you want to get from point a to b outside of town, it’s flight or drive.

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      1 year ago

      Like everything else. Big money buys out competition and then kills off anything that is not profitable enough. Parasitic private equity take all the money.

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        1 year ago

        Of course smaller companies serving markets the big guys don’t want to bother with isn’t actually competition. But the big guys want to crush them anyway. So stupid.

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      1 year ago

      That’s incredibly sad, and as the other commenter suggested, all too common with big daddy capitalism. I can’t describe how angry it makes me, and how powerless those situations make me feel at times. I’m so happy, and proud, when I see communities truly fight back - and I can fight along side then. So often we go out with a wimpe, I want to fight for the things important to me!

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      A while back Greyhound put up billboards on I5 in Washington/Oregon/North Cali with a bunch of rinky dink towns whose names were crossed out, their way of showing they were ending stops there, so fuck you hicks! But you big city folk will get where you’re going so much faster. It was a really obnoxious ad campaign.