"and it also means holding down the wages of the people....etc.."

amen, McGrath..and it also means things like laying off people who are near retirement so they don't have to pay pensions, then rehiring them as 'temps' doing the same job at lower wages....and defending it as 'sound business practice'.

and it means things like Microsoft and AOL owning most of the software we use for these chats, and slowly removing any hope of the 'freedom' the internet/WWW was supposed to bring.