• moujikman [none/use name]
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    612 years ago

    Tacit collusion is literally everywhere and completely normalized. A coworker was describing a revenue-sharing agreement but actually described collusion to set prices.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      122 years ago

      the latter example there actually isn’t collusion it’s competition. adulteration is the natural consequence of unregulated free market competition. Everyone competes to be the bottom of the market so they can put everyone else out of business and to do so they cut costs as much as possible. And then once the market is dominated they raise prices without improving the standard of product