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Isn’t that a similar argument against AI?

End consolidation. Go back to pre-1980s antitrust policy. Encourage competition and bust the trusts.

That sounds toxic.

Single family used to act as a check on greed. Careless institutional investment was limited to multi family. They couldn’t push multi family rents beyond single family. Once institutional got into single family, everything became uncapped. It’s harder for millions of small landlords competing for tenants to act as a cartel than it is for a few large landlords taking up marginal supply.

It’s stock manipulation.

It’s good for the fossil fuel industry and that’s why it was done.

Cats doing tricks has a limited budget.

Musicians used to not let their songs be used in commercials.

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Or they’re aiding it.

Can’t you just have it login?

And, historically, CEOs only were the CEO of one company and had one job.

Google was literally declared a monopoly by a court recently. Facebook and Apple both are oligopolies or monopolies in certain market segments. Apple has a monopoly on app store and on device payments. These things are bad enough that they’re being litigated.

But those extra dollars aren’t with consumers. Otherwise, yes. That’s where the money supply causes inflation argument falls apart — at least for this case.