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Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age (jacobin.com)

submitted 9 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Apple’s battle with Epic is a reminder that today’s tech companies behave like 19th-century monopolists. Installing democratic control over these modern throwbacks to Gilded Age robber barons is the only way to curb their power.

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