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Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@fribbledom I was thinking about it a lot. To me this is a natural evolution of capitalist businesses who, over the XXth century, gradually honed the way to make the most money, and it turned out that aggressive marketing + buying out competitors + subverting industries with a subsidized "free" products, all work better than "honest" competition. Computers helped doing it more efficiently, and the Internet helped to scale it globally.

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Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@fribbledom forgot one necessary condition: they also have to buy out government regulation which would normally restrict the free market from monopolizing and acquiring too much power.

beschißen🇨🇦️👀️🌻️🇺🇦

@isagalaev @fribbledom That sounds a lot like ISPs/telecoms in Canada. There's 4 "Big Boys", and a bunch of resellers for Internet, TV and landlines. Reseller (TPIA) prices are quite often close to half the price charged by the big guys.

Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@beschissen @fribbledom I mean… Can you name any big business that's not like that? You don't get oligopoly big by just producing great products/services.

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