By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026After all, if a company with a large market share was cheating - say, if it was increasing its profit margins by reducing quality or jacking up prices - then smaller companies would rush into the market to poach its dissatisfied customers. 1481
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026Thus, all competition enforcement was reduced to an empty syllogism: monopolies are the result of excellence and any less-than-excellent monopolist will have its advantage "competed away." 1502
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026Therefore, any monopolist you encounter in the wild is *definitionally* not a bad monopolist, otherwise it would already have disappeared. 1461
