It's the economies of scale which work in their favour. This is why anti-trust laws were passed, To curb overwhelming control of emerging technologies/industries in early C20th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Cartels_and_collusion …
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I know the history (and all of that, and labor rights, were rolled back). All I'm saying is that it was at some point technologically, socially & economically feasible to have better networks than we do today. The window is closing fast.
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I think it closed 10 years ago, the sheer scale of the advantage Google/Amazon/Facebook have makes new contenders entering the market virtually impossible without govt intervention (see China)
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Let's just say that despite observing the storm building up for over a decade and a half, I remain somewhat of a social tech optimist. We just need better education, even more than we need better systems.
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All cartels crumble eventually. Greed makes corporations stupid. Stupidity makes them vulnerable. The IBM Effect.
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In US oil/steel and railways were still relatively new industries 100 years ago. History is repeating itself, for very similar reasons.
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As were oil, race etc. Issue remains regulatory oversight by the state(s)
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The oil/steel/railway barons never achieved 100%, wasn't necessary. They had enough control of their markets to ensure they got the prices/profits they wanted.
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