Am i being wooshed?
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raldone01@lemmy.world 1 day agoMonopolies are good for the consumer as it makes purchasing decisions easier. Some tech markets such as the GPU one show how well a monopoly can work for shareholders.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah, wouldn’t it be amazing if for example Apple has the monopoly on the smartphone market, so your purchasing decision would be to buy an iPhone, or a slightly larger iPhone, or fuck all? And they would have no competition - which is the definition of a monopoly - so they could price them at whatever they wanted to. They could even make the American iPhone a reality, because let’s be real, it’s kinda hard to function without a phone these days.
Aren’t monopolies such a great thing for consumers :))))
raldone01@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That story is really sad. To me it seems like a failing of the parents/education system to not teach the son who was 17 that selling a kidney is a bad idea.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
That is what the tariffs are for and Apple has promised to invest a shit ton of money into manufacturing those phones here… so they can raise the prices to the ceiling of the tariffs imposed on China, India, Thailand, Indonesia … etc. There are no other smart phones manufactured in the US so they will effectively… have a monopoly.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Decisions easier, quality and sanity suffers, though.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Monopolies are good for the consumer?
Respectfully, what the fuck are you talking about. That has never been true ever.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Based on the last sentence, I believe it’s satire.
raldone01@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought the second sentence made that clear but apparently not.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
If only there was an understood way to convey sarcasm.
raldone01@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How did you get that downvote? Must have been a mistake.