I support oil companies and i'm a piece of shit.

I get paid pretty well for my seniority level here, it's above average. Netherlands just pays engineers bad, the only way for decent pay in this area is to either go to ASML or move to management. Technical positions are notoriously underpaid.

I do also get 30 days PTO, bike plan, decent pension funding and other benefits.

Same with American healthcare. If you have a lot of money its the best in the world.

If you have insurance its on par with the rest of the world but still more expensive.

If you're uninsured you're ducked

The house already had hearings for trying to break up big tech. Amazon, Google, etc. have already spoken on this topic in front of a congressional committee and it is likely that nothing will be done, because they do have competition...it's just that they are spread out across so many industries that they aren't really competing with ONE company, but a battery of companies. For example, Google has competition in the search engine business (I know, not much competition, but some does exist--this is probably the least competitive section of their business, but just for a simple example) from Yahoo and Bing. They ALSO have competition in the video sharing business from TikTok (or they did, I've never used TikTok so I didn't keep up on what happened with that) against their Youtube group. And Google maps competes with iMaps or whatever Apple has, and maybe idk Mapquest or something. So Google has competition all all these fronts, look guys! They definitely aren't a monolith!

The difference is that Google is competing against tens of other companies, while all of those companies are primarily competing against ONE company--Google. But the CEOs can spin that as non-monopoly, and avoid being taken apart.

So it won't happen. Or if it does, it'll be largely meaningless changes.

Google is an MMA fighter against a dozen kindergarteners. they wont lose even if its 100 kindergarteners.

unless one of those 100 kids aims correctly (or incorrectly, depending on you one is in this scenario)

if one does the MMA fighter buys them. and then grows a 5 year old on their back like a conjoined twin to fend off attacks from the rear.

Yeah no disagreement here. Just posting the defense they use.

LOL YOUR USERNAME

This place is worse than GC tbh