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Jarrod Baniqued's avatar

Hello,

I’d like to suggest a few potential monopolies and oligopolies for coverage next season. Here’s the list, from less to more frivolous.

In medium-lift rockets and orbital tourism: SpaceX

In wind turbines: GE Vernova, Vestas, Nordex and Siemens

In electric trains: Alstom, Siemens, and Kawasaki

In diesel locomotives: Progress Rail and Wabtec

In buses: New Flyer, North American, Gillig and El Dorado

In deep-sea cable laying: Global Marine, Prysmia, NEC, SubCom, KCS

In high-purity quartz mining: the owner of the Spruce Pine mine in North Carolina

In geographic information systems software: ArcGIS, Mapbox and ESRI

In local TV and radio: Nexstar, Gray, Tegna, Hearst, Scripps, Sinclair and IHeartMedia

In comic book publishing: Marvel and DC

In live-streaming: YouTube and Twitch

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Janet Sutta's avatar

Kai Rex hit the nail on its head. Real food, grown in real living soil tenanted by lots of small critters tastes and nourishes differently, better, than food grown in depleted soil, fertilized with chemical fertilizers. GMO seeds developed by the same companies that make huge profits from the sale of pesticides and herbicides are diminishing the nutrients in the foods that we buy. Take a look at "The Third Plate" by Dan Barber, he talks a lot about healthy plants ability to ward off pests and disease and how stressed plants, growing in depleted soils can survive with herbicides and pesticides but lack the minerals that we need from them leaving our bodies undernourished even as we stuff ourselves into obesity in an effort to survive. Thanks for scratching the surface of the disaster that our food system is in, I hope to hear more and better informed discussion about this vital problem.

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