Apply to "diversity" - every step is rational but suicidal because the fundamental problem is that merchants don't have the cohesion needed to *all* not "bid".
It's too complex to sum up with one game but the heart of it is principle / agent problems and ultimately logo is just 100% wrong about "the capitalists" being in charge. If you wreck google search or Star Wars but gain progressive status as an individual you personally benefit.
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Some of the owners of these places would like to avoid this but any one place that resists gets cut out and destroyed so they all play along knowing that competitors are in the same boat - hope that you don't get sunk any faster. If they could coordinate, they could stop it.
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But merchants don't coordinate as a class - they can't. They all defect on each other constantly - that's the nature of the market and deal making.
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