By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Meanwhile, 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/ 1212
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Members 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/ 1192
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026This lets them secure an enshittogenic policy environment that reflects the easily arrived-at consensus that's only possible when you boil a sector down to a small handful of firms, each of them "too big to jail": pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/r... 6/pluralistic.netRegulatory Capture – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1180