>To improve workers’ wages across the board, the report calls for local and state government to support workers’ rights to organize, adopt better labor standards for subcontracted workers, increase taxes on corporate headquarters and provide affordable housing.
All of this seems reasonable and structural to me, ie it maintains a level playing field for businesses.
To not have such an elementary understanding of how things work is just baffling to me.
And again, yes, corporations, individuals, criminal gangs, they can all have their assets seized at various times and under various conditions.
I'm not sure which part of that you think is news to me.
Said license comes with terms.
Said citizen has a voice in those terms same as everyone else.
Bell Labs existed in large part because AT&T was trying to justify its monopoly to fend off antitrust regulators.
Also, I think it had more to do with building the switched telephone network than it did with building the internet.
It was a pretty unique organization in time and space, and not at all typical of "corporations."
To make a long story short, I would be interested in a constructive fact/evidence based position how we should tackle things like disappearing jobs due to automation, decreasing wages for unskilled labor, etc. in the future? Do you really have evidence and reason to believe that something like a government doesn‘t have to play a role in this? Really curious to understand your perspective and how you come to it :)