no, I don't think so. Amazon isn't really a thing here, they don't really do much in this part of the world (yet) and shipping tends to be prohibitively expensive.
Power comes from influence which in this situation comes from wealth, which is accrued over time, by fair means or foul. Enough of a headstart or through consolidation, and they can leverage their force however they like if nobody interferes, thus crushing or absorbing all competitors.

Even if you *could* own a farm in medieval Europe *technically*, ever doing so was *in practice* impossible because all the land was already staked and you could only rent the land, "The Oligarchy" wouldn't sell to you and getting enough money was near impossible either way. Today of course it's other resources than farmland that are controlled. Google hides you from search algorithms? Good luck getting people to know you exist, as an upstart your operational margins are slim to begin with. MasterCard and Visa yeets you? What do you have left? Good luck running a business and paying your employees in bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/barrystanton55/status/1077953227537158151?s=19

Oh god.

@halfthink in a sense that's more of a fascist establishment than any low-government republican.

Mixing of government and industry

https://youtu.be/Im6UgLuXch8
White people.

*Capitalism is evil because socialised money makes fractional reserve banking possible*

I feel like this could be an argument for either socialism or capitalism honestly.

Also we're living in the richest nation and have arguably the highest living standard of any nation in the world.

Though, everyone in the US are fat, lazy, miserable little bitches (myself included), so that's not great.

richest nation, but not per capita, so that's hardly a worthwhile measure if you're not actively in the process of signing trade deals and can use it for leverage personally. And in living standards US loses out to all the ScandiWegian countries, Germany, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, etc. Don't get me wrong, US is up there, but still a fair distance from the top by all conventional measurements.

Shits and giggles: mixing pot and laxatives into the brownie mix

Don't do that!

https://imgur.com/gallery/2ecuFfA

Well that was fucking weird.

I like how leftists claim they give a shit about me and my battle buddies, and other service members.

🤔

I mean, how far left are we talking?

I'm to the left, but not stupid left.

Stupid for the most part.

Just look at anyone who replies to Donald Trump on twitter lol

I see, yeah I'm friends with a lot of vets, and the "my couch is always an option" conversation has come up and been taken up on a few times.

For the most part I've found most vets are pretty reluctant to take charity, but they're fine with loans too.

To clarify, "leftist" to me is not anyone simply on the "left". "leftist" to me is a "progressive type or partisan type" usually on the left.

Yeah I get ya.

Funny thing I noticed is, none of these leftists would not not get UCMJ.

I kinda want to be that cup.

UCMJ?

Uniform Code of Military Justice

Yeah.

Never join the military, just friends with a lot of them.

We have programs like "Equal Opportunity" "SHARP"

Whole lot of these people would get busted for hating on white people.

haha

General would ruin their life