Nightly Nuance - June 2, 2021

Hello my friends, 

I'm posting old-school and late today because of a busy morning with my family. Thanks for your patience and grace! 

I want to discuss the cyberattack on JBS SA today -- not from a technical perspective but from the lens of what I'm calling Unethical Bigness. How do we know when a meat-packing company (or any company for that matter) has gotten big to the point that we should do something about it? And what do we do when our usual anti-trust rules don't help us? 

Resources: 

Influence of Meat Industry on Capitol Hill 

USDA facts on the industry  

Consolidation of the Industry  

Frontline on the Industry  

Problems with Consolidation 

Paper on Industry Consolidation 

Yahoo Finance on JBS Hacking  

CNN Business on JBS Hacking 

NYT on JBS Hacking 

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