By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026Instead of talking about how monopolies could clobber workers, customers and governments, we talked about whether monopolies might reduce prices. 1575
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026Sure, a monopoly can reduce prices - but as soon as it eliminates its competitors and captures its government, it's going to raise those prices, safe in the knowledge that a company that's too big to fail is too big to jail: pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/t...pluralistic.netPluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 17918
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026The dismantling of anti-monopoly law and the growth of the monopolies happened gradually, and then all at once. 2689
