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xnxtoday at 3:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is not a theory of market competition that I've heard before.


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kasey_junktoday at 3:58 PM

It’s also an usual use of the term arbitrage

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nok22kontoday at 4:32 PM

basic supply/demand

demand moves to cheaper providers, they ran out of capacity and increase price

literally why "commodities" are "commodities" - the more interchangeable a product is the more exposed it is to supply/demand mechanics