Forum Post: Abolish Chains and Franchises!!!...No more mass produced jobs...Abolish Chains!!!

No more mass produced jobs...Abolish Chains!!! *Service sector jobs are not jobs of the future ...they are the jobs of a corporate oligarchy. Abolish chains and franchises...period. These are monopolies. We need laws that will open the markets to every citizen. Butcher, baker, candlestick, hat maker. Currently, one family can own 74 stores making 10 million dollars per day for 9 family members to split and at the swipe of a merger lay off 25000 people. For that matter, one family decides the lives of 25000 people/ employees and far more than that in consumers . ( i will use Market Basket of New England as my example -for now i wont even discuss WalMart or the national chains) Why do we allow this? This not only limits consumer choice it limits competition and not only price sets products, it price sets jobs. Imagine instead a country with every family owning their own store, employing their own employees...if they treat them bad or raise prices too high ...we all get a choice to go elsewhere. Chains steal choice and cause a system of control...they are tying the hands of the citizenry by changing our government to benefit themselves and they are destroying the balance of our democracy.

They then accumulate enough wealth to buy and horde all our resources and sell them to us for ransom or to keep regular people from being able to step foot in the market...their conglomerated wealth forces rental rates through the roof and they have the ability to pay the local red tape tariffs which have also risen beyond the capability of a regular person to afford.. We cant get into the market and then we must essentially pay tolls to live because of the lack of choice we are forced to buy through them. Essentially corporations are succeeding our tax system and our government. Even worse they have infiltrated it by getting their own officials into office or on "regulation boards" and their lobbyists are changing our laws. Currently we have a supreme court that has been stacked to make and change laws to allow a seamless takeover. They are using our very system of democracy to take it over. Perhaps we need to bring them down to person size. One business for every man or woman. Direct responsibility, direct consequence. No subsidiaries or franchises. No mergers or buyouts. At a certain point the type of wealth they have accumulated is nothing but dangerous. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.