dd36

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by dd36 3mo ago
Isn’t that a similar argument against AI?
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by dd36 4mo ago
End consolidation. Go back to pre-1980s antitrust policy. Encourage competition and bust the trusts.
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by dd36 5mo ago
That sounds toxic.
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by dd36 8mo ago
Single family used to act as a check on greed. Careless institutional investment was limited to multi family. They couldn’t push multi family rents beyond single family. Once institutional got into single family, everything became uncapped.
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by dd36 9mo ago
It’s stock manipulation.
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by dd36 1y ago
It’s good for the fossil fuel industry and that’s why it was done.
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by dd36 1y ago
Cats doing tricks has a limited budget.
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by dd36 1y ago
Musicians used to not let their songs be used in commercials.
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by dd36 1y ago
*Perfect
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by dd36 1y ago
Or they’re aiding it.
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by dd36 1y ago
Can’t you just have it login?
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by dd36 2y ago
And, historically, CEOs only were the CEO of one company and had one job.
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by dd36 2y ago
Google was literally declared a monopoly by a court recently. Facebook and Apple both are oligopolies or monopolies in certain market segments. Apple has a monopoly on app store and on device payments. These things are bad enough that they’
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by dd36 2y ago
But those extra dollars aren’t with consumers. Otherwise, yes. That’s where the money supply causes inflation argument falls apart — at least for this case.
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by dd36 2y ago
More like the shenanigans aren’t new and can move up and down. And there’s coordination between the segments in the chain. How is it that farmers are making less than ever before but the products are more expensive than ever before? Look at
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by dd36 2y ago
Doubtful. Most deals aren’t financed with debt. There are many but off the top of my head Kroger buying Safeway. Visa buying Plaid. Nvidia buying Arm. Didn't they block a cell phone merger? A mattress merger?
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by dd36 2y ago
Does Israel make ChatGPT?
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by dd36 2y ago
Because there is collusion in the supply chain as well. The grocery stores won’t place your product, the distributors won’t distribute it or will charge you more, the farmers will charge you more. This is why horizontal and vertical consoli
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by dd36 2y ago
Margins aren’t an objective measurement. Margins are easy to manipulate through shell companies and other costs. Just look at PBMs. They all supposedly have small margins. However, once you peel back the layers, you see rebates and kickback
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by dd36 2y ago
Many mergers were squashed. The M&A market shrank considerably. There’s only so much they can do as far as bringing and prosecuting cases in four years.
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by dd36 2y ago
Lina Khan did a ton of anti-trust but corporations seem to have realized Trump is transactional/pay to play. One can hope the strong antitrust continues but there’s little reason for optimism.
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by dd36 2y ago
For money supply to be inflationary it has to increase demand or reduce supply for a given product. It sounds neat but there’s little evidence of that occurring on more than a temporary basis during covid. But covid also caused supply shock
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by dd36 2y ago
The government does not make things cheaper, competition does. The government’s role is to protect competition. Otherwise companies will collude not to compete.
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by dd36 2y ago
Google. Microsoft. Facebook. If it weren’t for antitrust, there’d be a lot fewer cell phone companies or airlines. I mean, it’s harder to name an industry where there hasn’t been consolidation. The only thing stopping it is the law. Consoli
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by dd36 2y ago
I’ve noticed “let us price it for you” appearing in ever more apps and services. Seatgeek most recently.
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by dd36 3y ago
His work is so important.
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by dd36 3y ago
Awareness.
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by dd36 3y ago
Where am I?
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by dd36 3y ago
It was perversion by the courts of a century old law that wasn’t made for unilateral consumer contracts. If the courts stopped reading that law so broadly, then the legislature could pass a law that allows it, if that’s indeed what was inte
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by dd36 3y ago
It is in a company’s best interest to make sure corruption is legal?

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