Monopolies are why people keep contracting deep vein thrombosis on long-haul flights
Monopolies are why a farmer's daughter is crying behind the desk of a best western
Monopolies are why hundreds of journalists became filmmakers, then back to writers, then unemployed
Monopolies are why students sit in Starbucks parking lots at night to do their homework
Monopolies are why teamsters stormed a podium to tell one another about their dead friends and relatives
Monopolies among banks are why there are monopolies among every other economic sector
Monopolies are why America can't build or run a single weapons system without assistance from China
Monopolies are why a small business owner and his girlfriend had to get permission from Amazon to live together
Monopolies are why hospitals can give patients prosthetic limbs and artificial hearts but not salt and water in a bag
Monopolies are why a woman found her own home listed for rent on zillow
Monopolies are why a family has only seen the top of their loved ones' head for the past two years
Monopolies are why I traveled to Chicago and Tel Aviv to learn how to stop.
