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Tech Companies To Powerful?

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Author : Thomas | Jan 17, 2021

      Tech Companies To Powerful?

 

The Tech Aristocracy – Too Good To Be True? - Macro Hive

US lawmakers agree Big Tech companies have too much power. On Nov 3, 2020 — After spending 16 months investigating Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, the House Judiciary Committee's Democratic leadership said that these BigTech companies have abused their monopoly power, stating they “ had turned from “scrappy” start-ups into “the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons  and railroad tycoons[1].”Ninety percentof public opinion agree that these companies have too much power and in fluence.

What companies are concidered big tech? These companies are also known with such names as Tech Giants, Big Four, Four Horseman,  Big Five, or S&P 5. These companies are the largest and most dominant in the information andd technology industry in the United States, namely Amazon, Apple,Google,Facebook and Microsoft. The richest tech company is Apple: $2 trillion.

The most valuable tech companies in the world:

  The most valuable tech companies in the world:Ranked: The Most Valuable Brands in the World in 2020

  • Apple (AAPL): $2 trillion.
  • Amazon.com (AMZN): $1.6 trillion.
  • Microsoft Corp. ( MSFT): $1.6 trillion.
  • Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL): $1.05 trillion.
  • Facebook (FB): $760 billion.


Are These Corporations Evil?

The Big Techs are legal organizations. Some are for profit and some not for profit. They are inherently neither the less good or bad.  to me it is the owners managers who make the decisions as to how they use their resources and how they manage their companies. 

On the one hand they are important for the overall economy. Because of their tremendous wealth they can conduct research and develop new goods and services for the benefit of all. They offer more job opportunities and stability, higher wages , better health and retirement benefits.

This wealth and power can also be used in negative ways such as controling the amount of valuable information for both sides to decide a fair  reasonable outcome. Should they make decisions for us or should we the people? 

 We at Tommy’s Team work actively to make the community as well as the society around us to be a better place to live in, and we also encourage many people to send us their ideas and suggestions so that we can improve society at large, for everyone concerned. And yes, this also includes


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