The Gilded Age Of Social Media Is Not A Good Thing
It is a good idea for the Emmerich newspapers to try to develop an alternative social media platform. With the recent sale of Twitter, all of the major social media sites are now under the tight control of a small number of billionaires. Nearly every aspect of life is now controlled by a small number of companies Apple, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Google, Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft, Dollar General and so on. Every person spends nearly all of their money every day of every week with the mega companies which in turn help the rich get richer. Nearly every thing that people read, see and hear, every email they get, every phone call they make, most of the food they eat, what they do in their lives is influenced by the invisible hands of a small group of people behind the curtain. There is a good article in the Mississippi Free Press this week which outlines how we are in the Second Gilded Age and how this small, new group of oligarchs use their vast wealth to control the media, influence public opinion, and keep the population under control though an endless list of manufactured issues. People have a choice, they could support small businesses and local media.
--- Robert W. Neill, Jr. is a sixth-generation farm and land owner and a licensed real estate broker who represents buyers of farm, land and real estate properties and is an investor in small businesses and startup companies. He can be contacted through his web site at landhungry.com
