Pluralistic: Precaratize bosses (19 Apr 2024)

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Precaratize bosses: When the ruling class tells you what motivates them, believe them the first time.
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Pluralistic: The super-rich got that way through monopolies (17 Jan 2024)

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The super-rich got that way through monopolies: A report in honor of Davos.
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Pluralistic: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

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Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped.
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Pluralistic: Big Tech's "attention rents" (03 Nov 2023)

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Big Tech's "attention rents": Enshittification comes out of the barrel of an algorithm.
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Pluralistic: Excuseflation (11 Mar 2023)

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Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.
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Pluralistic: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup (13 Feb 2023)

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Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup: You know you're doing something right when…
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This day in history: 2013
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Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2022 Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy

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Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Pluralistic: 10 Oct 2022 Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness

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Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness: SCOTUS is entitled to its own (judicial) opinions, but not its own facts.
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Pluralistic: 09 May 2022

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At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust: Listening to "those who have experienced firsthand the effects of mergers and acquisitions beyond antitrust experts."
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Pluralistic: 24 Aug 2021

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Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course?: Harmful dominance, democratic privacy controls, interop and illegitimate greatness.
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