The pursuit of fine audio like so many of the other fine things in life depends upon the amount of disposable income one has. In fact quite a lot of happiness depends upon this.
Therefore it's of paramount importance that our governments actually work for us and not for corporate interests.
It was an eye opener for me to discover that so many of the so called bitter rivalries such as Microsoft v Apple, McDonald's v KFC, and of course Pepsi v Coke weren't really such bitter rivalries after all.
At least not when the owning parent companies such as the above mentioned BlackRock and Vanguard were often one and the same.
Whatever happened to the monopolies commission? Or don't they bother to look beyond the brand name anymore?
Thankfully, this is the age of the internet - the real information age.
People can nowadays access business data much more freely, at least up to a certain point, and then make up their own minds on how things are really being run.
Or if they prefer, they can stick to the old hegemony handed down for generations.
The real point is that things are changing fast, maybe faster than ever before in our history, and that's something that might need to be understood.
It is surely no exaggeration to say that those who do not have access to online information are now at a serious disadvantage, is it?