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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026

If your theory is that markets deliver prosperity by spurring businesses to provide superior products and services at lower prices needed to attract and retain workers and customers, competition is a must-have. Without competitors, companies are "too big to care": pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/t... 3

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026

Meanwhile, if you think greed will always drive companies to cheat, and want companies held in check by democratically accountable lawmakers and enforcers, then you *also* want competition, because otherwise, disorganized sectors of hundreds of small businesses collapse into oligarchic cartels. 4/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026

Members of these cartels cease to compete directly with one another and instead collude to rip off workers and customers, leaving them aslosh in ready cash they can mobilize to capture regulators. 5/

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