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zigman1today at 12:59 PM4 repliesview on HN

Interesting, can this be an expected outcome of AI adoption? Mergers of big competitors?


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oerstedtoday at 1:41 PM

Remember Conglomerates? It just keeps changing name.

Free competitive markets are not an emergent natural phenomenon, they are a technology of civilised societies, and without governments constantly keeping markets free, we keep reverting back to to robber barons and eventually petty warlord kings, that's the natural low-energy state of humans if you let it go unchecked.

p-e-wtoday at 1:15 PM

Seems to be the expected outcome of everything, in every industry, for the past 10 years or so.

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layer8today at 6:04 PM

It’s the expected outcome of capitalism in the absence of effective market regulation.

master-lincolntoday at 1:32 PM

just capitalism in the final stage