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Re:How important are 'economies of scale'? by eropple on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:26PM (#22394509)
This sort of complaint is weird to me. Sure, monopolization and centralization in the US would be a problem too, but...that's not what actually exists. We have a number of large companies that probably should be parted out for better competition--something I'm super in favor of--but the state is not actively pulling their levers.

Is criticism of China subject to dismissals of "anti-China tone" when it describes what's happening?

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Re:How important are 'economies of scale'? by StreamBright on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:27AM (#22395609)
It _is_ a problem. There is no need to use hypothetical here.

- healthcare

This high degree of concentration has been building for years. A study published in the American Economics Review in 2012 found that the share of U.S. communities in which health insurance markets had become “highly concentrated” (using the standard deployed by Federal anti-trust regulators) increased from 68 in 1998 to 99 percent in 2006. The same study concluded that this increase in concentration had caused a seven percentage point increase in premiums over the period.

- telco

https://www.groundedreason.com/does-the-u-s-have-a-broadband...

The actual list is long. There are 2 more obvious examples.

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Re:How important are 'economies of scale'? by eropple on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:38PM (#22398201)
If you don't grok the difference between unhealthy levels of corporate concentration and every major business in every industry having agents of the ruling party in the org chart, I don't know what to tell you.
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