Long story short: tell our government to stop big pharma corporations from price-gouging, investigate Uber and Lyft for breaking antitrust law, and avoid building solar on public lands where wildlife thrives. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Demand Progress helps you tell the Biden Administration to finalize its "march-in rights" rule, which would enable our government to "march in" and license drug patents to other corporations if patentholders continued to price-gouge good Americans. Which they totally do! And if they knew they'd lose more money if they gouged good Americans, they'd stop doing it! That's what "government working for you" looks like. And yes, our Supreme Court might say it's unconstitutional, but let's make them do it, and earn even more bad will for themselves! If Brett Kavanaugh can't go out for coffee because he's afraid people will shame him, that's just how civilization works.
More Perfect Union helps you tell our Federal Trade Commission (or FTC) that the Uber/Lyft business model actually violates our antitrust laws. How? With secret algorithms that pay drivers differently, based on factors they won't let anyone see, even if drivers use the exact same route as other drivers – all resulting in, per one researcher, "algorithmic wage discrimination." You know how cab rates have been historically fixed on time and distance? No longer! Now drivers never know how much money they're going to make! And Uber and Lyft can only get away with it because they have monopoly power in the first place! So, yeah, our FTC needs to know about this.
Finally, the Center for Biological Diversity helps you tell our government to put solar panels on already-degraded public lands, not public lands with thriving wildlife populations who might be hurt or killed by solar projects. We want a more renewable future, but we don't want to hurt living beings to do it! Right-wingers try to use this truism against us whenever they whine about "windmills being eyesores" or "windmills making noise" or "windmills killing birds," all of which they greatly exaggerate, and all of which they use to get you to oppose good things you wouldn't ordinarily oppose. But, as I've suggested in the first sentence, there is always another way to do the right thing.
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