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Re:Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery app... by heavyset_go on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:23PM (#23209301)
This is naive. Cartels are a market failure, and your argument against cartels existing is that market forces in an ideal world would prevent them.

Reminder that Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all colluded to keep engineer compensation below market value[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

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Re:Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery app... by Jommi on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:09AM (#23209492)
Well that's also just a naive view. Industrial Economics takes a deeper look at this for example.
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