Using Government to Eliminate Your Competition
Big Tech wins and Labor loses via astronomical minimum-wage hikes
In a previous article I described how the nuclear industry is partnering with Democrats to drive its fossil-fuel competition out of business:
Using their Climate Change farce, Democrats terrorize the public into believing that existing fossil-fuel plants are more dangerous than the coming new generation of nuclear plants;
the terrified public then willingly pays for conversion to all-electric consumer goods and electric infrastructure, falsely believing that our future lies in windmills and solar panels,
and further demands the shutdown of all fossil-fuel plants, creating an enormous vacuum that can be filled only by the nuclear industry, which arrives just in time to save the day.
Some people find this a bit of a stretch, so here’s an analogy that’s even more obvious. But first, some basics. In the world of big business:
It is much easier to force your competition out of business than to sell your inferior competing products into an already-saturated market.
You destroy your competition (at the start of your market entry) by having the government regulate your competition out of existence - by making your competition’s products either illegal or prohibitively expensive.
You don’t need to pay for the astronomical infrastructure changes needed to accommodate your new products; instead you have the government either force or terrify the public into paying for them.
Before you can expect the government to do your bidding, you must form a fascistic relationship with one government party. This explains big business’ increasingly cozy relationship with Democrats, i.e. the party of rules and regulations. Democrats are much better partners for fascistic enterprises because:
Democrats run a massive social-justice hoax that convinces their voters that Democrats’ rules and regulations exist to serve humanitarian causes, and consequently
Democrat voters are likely to believe that new regulations passed by Democrats are for the common good.
Hence we have Democrats passing “Climate Change” regulations to eliminate fossil-fuel competition for the nuclear industry, which would otherwise languish trying to sell a more expensive and more dangerous product into an already saturated energy market, all while Democrat voters believe that Democrats are saving the planet.
Here’s another example from an entirely different industry:
The presenter here says he doesn’t understand why the California legislature would put fast-food workers into their own separate category that gets a $20 minimum wage while everyone else gets $16, so I’ll help him out.
Big Tech is located mostly in California, and Big Tech controls the California legislature (and increasingly Democrat legislatures everywhere). Big Tech has obviously decided, together with McDonald's management, that it is going to fully automate all McDonald's locations nationwide. To force the franchisees to demand automation, CA Democrats are driving up labor costs precisely for the purpose of making automation an essential alternative to human labor, which provides better service and which, until the minimum-wage hike, was more cost efficient. No doubt (while nobody is noticing) McDonald’s is getting tax breaks to help fund its store conversions, which means the public is paying for them.
Part of the evidence here is the gaslighting in the media: “Have it your way!” says the article cheerfully, ironically borrowing competitor Burger King’s most famous slogan. "McDonald’s has now taken the initiative to make the lives of their customers easier and more convenient by introducing technology-driven solutions." Fully automated stores, you see, are for customer convenience. Formerly you could place your verbal order with a human who knew enough to guide you through your options; now you must instead interact with the monstrously complicated and ever-changing user interface of a kiosk or phone-app, often requiring many frustrating minutes of your time. But it's all for your convenience.
Yup. If we say it often enough, sheep that you are, we know you'll come to believe it.
What’s even more amazing is that California’s Democrat voters actually believe that their leaders specifically raised California’s fast-food minimum wage to an unpayable level in order to help out the workers rather than to get them all fired. I guess you just can’t fix stupid.
==== ADDENDUM of 3/25/24
Do you believe that the Seattle City Council actually imagined that it could raise the incomes of delivery drivers by hiking their minimum wage to levels where customers will no longer pay for delivery? Or is it easier to believe that the Seattle Council members are bagmen, paving the way for Big Tech to bring in drone delivery services? Seattle's Socialist Wage Hike BACKLASH: Devastating Impact on Uber Eats & DoorDash Deliveries
Do you believe that the Minneapolis City Council thought that it could regulate the compensations of Uber and Lyft drivers? Or is it easier to imagine that the City Council (and the regional Met Council) are planning a massive expansion of the local public transit system into the rideshare business - one that will be run in a manner more to their liking, complete with opportunities to enrich themselves, their families, and friends, along with enactment of all sorts of Democrat fantasies: an all-electric car fleet, massive contracts for expansion of electric-car charging stations throughout the metro, drivers hired according to the DFL's racial and LGBTQIA+-*/^% quota systems? Uber says it will suspend services in metro area after Minneapolis vote