TCI investors, among other people, are the literal owners of Alphabet. The CEO is an employee who takes direction from the owners.
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All that said, I still find this to be the kind of thing that probably feels very tight and compelling if you already believe it (and perhaps if you already know what "PREE" stands for), but for someone on the outside (like me) it just seems like a bunch of statements with broad mood affiliation and then the blog post ends.
I'd hate to only show the parts of myself that are perfectly unique to the world, I think that'd be very lonely.
The truth about Apple, and probably any other company that managed to get in its amazing situation, is that they want the whole pie. They’ll always burn partners, customers, and rivals to slowly (or quickly) boil the frog and consume the whole pie. It’s been clear for a long time, but their devices are so great that we’re all in denial. They’re a bad actor, we have to move forward and figure out the next steps for ourselves.
This is not at all to say that this is worse, it may be better at least for some people. But this is completely standard with unionization, there's nothing especially sinister here.
nb, I do not like Apple and don't consider this a defense of their business.
Were you thinking of a different quote from your source? This quote, which seemed closest to your intent, does not at all say what you were suggesting.