AT&T CEO not happy about how fast wages are rising. He gave himself an 18% raise this year.

Cool you defended a conglomerate telecomm company that swallows its competition in huge corporate mergers and is based in delaware to avoid taxes, while participating in anticompetitive practices with fellow telecomm companies to keep prices as high as possible for their customers and services as bad as possible. And getting massive tax breaks, subsidies, and publically-funded tech from the government. A service requiring national infrastructure, like cellular service, cannot be a free market environment. The costs of entering are astronomical. I have not seen compelling arguments for why a nationalized telecomm service would be inferior to what we have now, unless you are measuring only on the axis of profit extraction. We have some of the worst internet speeds in the west. Everyone hates their internet and cellular provider. The government gives them billions to build fiber infrastructure and they pocket it, don’t build anything, and there are no consequences because they own congress. Comments like yours remind me that there are always smug weirdos online who personally take offense when the status quo is challenged and will defend CEOs and multinational conglomerates that are richer than god because they think they will get recognition for it or extra credit on their homework.

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