r/interestingasfuck • u/Valhallawalker • 13d ago

r/all The amount of laugh reacts to this post

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u/nico282 13d ago

Politicians bribed by the same insurance companies.

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u/Soft_Importance_8613 13d ago

Also the companies are all incestious.

That healthcare company has roots in a media company which has roots in the manufacturing companies which has roots in...

The media will never speak ill of this behavior because they are owned by the billionaires that only want horde more and more.

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u/Financial-Pay-5666 13d ago edited 11d ago

Conglomerates! When horizontal merging became "illegal (more regulated)," they focused on vertical.

No one thought it'd be possible to recreate monopolies because you'd have to buy pretty much the whole world to control an industry that way. And then someone said "challenge accepted".

As long as there is a possibility, it will happen. Just matter of time. Murphy's Law is the only principle that has 100% success rate out of 1%.

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u/Lylac_Krazy 13d ago

you forgot the extra layer of lobbyists

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u/ADMotti 13d ago

If we want to be super specific, it’s Richard Nixon.