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Sorry, I wasn't asking you for notes.

No, it's because it's not profitable to do so, and the big players will kill your business. This is also tangentially mentioned in the article... You think you can compete with PotatoCo, which makes billions of dollars, has massive scale, owns several Senators, and which every last potato farm in America is already using? And you want to blame the food regulations that keep people from getting sick and dying?

But sure, just go "start a frozen potato company". Why didn't anyone else think of that until Hacker News?

Go try selling meth. Government has always defined what kind of business people can conduct.

The article isn't about consumer apps, though, it's about websites that all four companies in an industry use for "optimal pricing", which just launders collusion through a Python backend. I would considering giving the piece a reread.

It's true. Food too expensive? Just starve, it's so easy.

I'm pretty sure nobody actually read the goddamn article, no. HN hates Doctorow because, let's be honest, he swings at the companies that are responsible for mediocre React developers being able to afford their Teslas.

I mean, I was definitely only following spuddy orders, Your Honor.

How do you feel about the quotes from executives patting themselves on the back for taking advantage of inflation? Or did you skip that part?

That must be why America spends the least on healthcare and has the best health outcomes then.

Uh, 50.9% of the voting population just voted for the man who said he'd lower prices, so.

Which part of not preventing a bunch of mergers for decades counts as government intervention to you?

You're on a forum where people regularly do Patagonia-clad kabuki theatre to bored men in Palo Alto to get $10 million to build Uber for Dogs. Yes, half of these insipid comments are advocating for monopolies. That's where the money is. There's a reason America did this during the Gilded Age, and why we busted the everloving shit out of monopolies after.

So you're saying monopolies don't exist, those quotes from food execs about taking advantage of inflation were made up, and RealPage never happened? Just so I'm clear which facts you have a problem with.

You must not be employed by one of the companies making these apps.

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