In 1987, Oliver Stone gave us the flick “Wall Street.”  And in it – the capitalist evil archetype Gordon Gekko.  Whose perhaps most famous scripted lines were:

“The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

“Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

“Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.

“And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.”

Except at that point the real Wall Street – was well into its second decade of selling Main Street brick by brick to the rest of the planet.  Mainly to Communist China.

Aided and abetted by DC – passing laws to expedite the fire sale.

Murdered were tens of millions of jobs.  Born was the Rust Belt – and hollowed out towns throughout the country.

Wall Street greed didn’t save the US – it destroyed it.

So – when you’ve out-greed-ed Wall Street?  When you’ve become so nauseatingly huge – Wall Street decides it has to address it?

It quintessentially demonstrates the cronyism-infested obscenity that is modern America and its alleged marketplace.

Well, Big Tech has become that obnoxiously huge. (more…)