Manipulation of the market never comes for free.

You just delay, and render unpredictable, the eventual reckoning, for short-term benefits.

It will be interesting to see who’s gonna blame the free market when that day arrives.

> Literally no one benefits from the alternative.

Future you might disagree with present you. But even if we disregard time, I think millions of consumers would benefit from the opportunity to have competitive markets again. If an actual economic forest fire was allowed to burn, we might eliminate some of the too-big-to-fail corruption and oligopoly that is the norm now and provide space for new seeds to grow.