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beats out the brick and mortar store**s**
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1 1 ReplyPretty much everything was a duopoly and as the market was so small they just grew to mutually exist without need to compete.
Shit most of them are all owned by the same parent companies now.
2 1 ReplyMy point being that while a duopoly may seem like a worst case scenario, it very much isn't.
2 0 ReplyMy point is that is isn’t any better or worse when there isn’t competition.
You’re still a captive market being charged the highest costs possible.
2 1 ReplyThe "highest cost possible" is higher in a monopoly than a duopoly.
2 0 ReplyNo, it's at the consumers wallet.
1 1 ReplyI don't know what this means
2 0 ReplyThe highest cost is hard set by what the consumer is able to spend.
They cannot go higher.
1 0 Replyif that's how you want to define "highest cost", then goods absolutely aren't priced at highest cost in a duopoly
they aren't even priced at highest cost in a monopoly, because "all the money a person has" is just cartoon logic
1 0 ReplyMarkets have a carrying capacity.
You cannot exceed this, it’s not a cartoonish “all the money you have”
1 0 ReplySo "highest cost" isn't set by "what the consumer is able to spend"? So what's it set by?
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So private telecoms frantically lowering their prices when a public-funded internet company launches is just a coincidence?
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