#pricefixing
The US FTC on the subject of whether using algorithms to fix prices is still collusion as if people did it.
Spoiler alert: It's the same thing.
#Fraud #Collusion #PriceFixing
Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ 'Shameful': #EU Set to Trash More Vaccine Doses Than It Has Donated [sic] to Africa https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/16/shameful-eu-set-trash-more-vaccine-doses-it-has-donated-africa #patent #patents #monopoly #priceFixing
Lawyers: "how much can you afford?" "What's your budget?" Interpret as: how much money can I steal from you while claiming to "represent" you in a dodgy system we all lobbied for, while ensuring #priceFixing for interacting with the system.
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #patent #patents #monopolies #pricefixing ☞ While #Lobbying to Kill Build Back Better, Pharma Hikes Costs of 866 Drugs https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/31/while-lobbying-kill-build-back-better-pharma-hikes-costs-866-drugs
● NEWS ● #Africa ☞ Only 10 Percent of Africa's Population Is [COVID-19] Vaccinated https://truthout.org/video/only-10-percent-of-africas-population-is-fully-vaccinated/ #patent #patents #greed #pricefixing https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/bill-gates-investments-covid/
#AdamMossoff now lobbying for #bigpharma #priceFixing #cartel with #patents ... those Koch-funded 'scholars' might as well be flagged for crimes against humanity.
● NEWS ● #TruthOut #patent #pricefixing ☞ #Walmart and Kroger Hike Prices for #COVID19 Tests Amid Shortage https://truthout.org/articles/walmart-and-kroger-hike-prices-for-covid-tests-amid-shortage/
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #patents #monopolies #pricefixing ☞ 'Pandemic Profiteering, Plain and Simple': Walmart and Kroger Hike Prices for #Covid19 Tests https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/05/pandemic-profiteering-plain-and-simple-walmart-and-kroger-hike-prices-covid-tests
Imagine #ManagingIP actually asking for the opinions from people outside this #pricefixing #cartel (but those people are sponsoring this #propagandamill , which isn't a source of journalism but #lobbying , with occasional #fakenews ) https://www.managingip.com/article/b1vzymymrjzf29/spc-trends-to-watch-in-2022-an-eu-review-the-waiver-article-3c
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Finance #cartel #pricefixing #looting ☞ Opinion | What's Driving Higher Prices? Unchecked Corporate Power https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/21/whats-driving-higher-prices-unchecked-corporate-power
Some people send me stuff with false claims about #covid19 not being a big deal, but excess deaths data EASILY disputes this nonsense; the main issue is that vaccines for this disease became a #pricefixing #patent #cartel for barely-tested and low-efficacy (falsely-advertised) products http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2021/11/14/nhs-england-excess-deaths-data/
#patent #patents #monopolies #pricefixing "around 90 countries, it will probably gouge to get the most possible money from each. The way to do that is by setting, for each country, a price that many of its citizens can't afford." https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#19_November_2021_(Pfizer_new_treatment_generic)
"The US has only four major #supermarket chains -- although there are a lot of different brands, many supermarket brands are subsidiaries of the big four." https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#19_November_2021_(Grocery_cartels) #pricefixing #cartel
FWIW, the stereo/hifi unit at home is from 1994 and still working OK. I can imagine we'll use it in 10 years, still... if we bought one TODAY, it would not last 10 years. Quality of components when #priceFixing #cartels have a joint interest...
