Pluralistic: Booz Allen ticketmastered America's public lands (30 Nov 2022)


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Pluralistic: The looming accountancy apocalypse (29 Nov 2022)


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Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022


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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2022 Citizens United and the FTX meltdown


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Pluralistic: 22 Nov 2022 Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook


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Pluralistic: 21 Nov 2022 Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos


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Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop

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A lot of regulations went up in flames in the Reagan/Thatcher era: labor laws, environmental rules, finance frameworks. But the most consequential shift of the age was the change in antitrust law, specifically, the advent of the “consumer welfare” standard that supposed that monopolies were mostly totally amazing, miracles of coordination and efficiency that would make all our lives better thanks to the singular genius of the men (and a few women) who led them.

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Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2022 Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree


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Pluralistic: 15 Nov 2022 Tracers In the Dark


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