✨capitalism✨

Also the most boring game

If you’re playing monopoly, isn’t everyone a loser? 😝

Which is what the game of monopoly was designed to teach.

Historically, the name came from Dave Nichol, who was president of the company for decades. He actually had a very strong hand in the selection of products that were included in the product line.

Apparently all kinds of people would pitch product ideas at him, and would taste test them and pick only ones he liked. The idea of "President's Choice" wasn't to be cheapo no name products, but unique and distinctive stuff personally picked by the company's president.

And Dave wasn't just some guy in the corner office. In his prime he was a Canadian personality, and you saw him in TV commercials. Once he left Loblaws in the '90s the President's Choice stuff lost its panache and meaning.

If he could get away with it, he'd rename is Peasant's Choice.

Oh wait. He probably can get away with it.

That’s exactly how cable works in the States, you only have one real choice depending on where you live. If you try and cancel over their atrocious service there’s a very real chance they’ll ask what other choices you think you have.

Susan Crawford wrote on and talked about this (mis)handling of telecoms in the US context years ago, the government letting the companies divide regions up and ensure a lack of competition.

My reading of the situation in Canada for internet and wireless is that it was a historical mix of:

• lacking political will/interest to govern from day one
• a policy of letting the free market run until it’s a major problem
• follow the US lead for anything new
• and support the (then) recently de-regulated incumbent (Bell) to dominate
• give competitive advantages to Canadian companies vs allowing foreign competition even if it means worse outcomes for Canadian consumers (better to protect the Canadian economy from foreign interests than to ensure consumer best interests).

Didn't a Telus exec confirm this publicly? It's a little more than a theory.

It is more like an oil company, a mining company, and a logging company all on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat

Probably wanna delete this before the Irvings put a hit out on you

Until Bell decides to snuff it out. They'll use their "legal" division (aka the CRTC) to outlaw it and no-one will squawk about it because: if you control the media, you control 'the people's' voice. We live in the shittiest timeline.

sorry about that by the way

4 separate companies in one sector

Cannot relate.

Lobslaw 🤣🤔🤣🤔🤣

I'm keeping that one.

As a Canadian, what the hell is an Irving?