Tech Monopolies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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"Both of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughters work for the tech giants: Alison Schumer works as a privacy and politics product marketing manager at Facebook parent company Meta, while Jessica Schumer is a registered lobbyist for Amazon in New York state. The fate of the Senate’s antitrust bills targeting the tech industry comes down to Schumer, who will ultimately decide whether or not to bring them to the floor."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2022/02/22...

I mean this is just the natural order of industry and governance, they will be closely linked to the point of obvious corruption and oligarchy. Oligarchy is the natural form of government.

I still don't really understand how Oliver feels outrage at the normal functioning of the only government he is willing to live in, where his political views are the norm, and them being dissatisfied has made him wealthy and influential in a way he never could have been as a humor-focused comedian.

It ties back to this piece about monopolies in US that has stuck with me from last year (long detailed read) -

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/lina-khans-bat...

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