The Colonization of Local-Business Main Street by Corporate America

Colonization introduces an amazing array of bargain-priced goods and services. The "natives" are happy to have access to all the goodies, but a short time later, the colonizers own the land, the markets, the politicians, the media and the labor force, and everyone who once had an independent livelihood and independent political voice is impoverished or is now an employee of the plantation, taking orders from the Big Boss.

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