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josephcsible
6 months ago
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The feds are coming for John Deere over the right ...
They're not using their market dominance to enforce it. They're using regulations (copyright and trade secrets) to enforce it.
burnte
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They get away with it because of their dominance in the market, that's why the gov't needs to take action. They're so huge there are no real competitors for customers to turn to.
Qwertious
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They're using the money they got from market dominance to finance their lobbying for regulations to enforce their market dominance.
It's the political economy. Every market system ever has had one.
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