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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by stcredzero on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:57PM (#20091048)
You are correct, sir! I remember now HN has had this discussion before. However, I think most people would refer to both a Monopsony and Monopoly as the latter.
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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by kortilla on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:43AM (#20091959)
No, that’s not true. People rarely even consider that there is a special term for being the only buyer or controlling all of the buyers.

I can’t think of any scenarios where people referred to the military as having a monopoly on the missile market. It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t even make missiles.

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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by stcredzero on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:09PM (#20096348)
I can’t think of any scenarios where people referred to the military as having a monopoly on the missile market.

But Farmers being ravaged by middlemen would use that term about the middlemen buying their crops.

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