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SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

More competition… =Prices increase.

This is not the outcome I was told would happen.

Wait, what else was I told that never came correct.?

Student loans Housing Pay raises Protect and serve Self driving cars Pot/Gateway Equal opportunity Meritocracy

… I’m beginning to think all of society, in it’s entirety, is just one big grift.

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Nonameuser678@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No matter what they say capitalists do not actually like, or benefit, from competition.

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- Cassus@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They actively kill competition for a reason.
  
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  - holygon@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I mean, what is competition? The entire point of a competition is that someone wins, and someone loses. When the entire structure is a competition, then if enough time passes most participants will have lost, and only one will stand victorious. The concept of free market competition will always end in monopoly, and every anti-trust mechanism is just a way to slow this down, not an actual solution. Capitalism will never create a solution to this either, as monopoly is the logical goal of capitalism. When monopoly exists, the capitalists have the most power. Of course capitalism will benefit the capitalists. It would be weird if it didn’t.
    
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reev@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not competition if everyone has exclusivity contracts on all the content. Take Spotify vs Netflix for example. Spotify will have mostly the same base content as Apple Music, Deezer, what have you. With Netflix… You don’t get any Disney movies, no game of thrones, you have to buy all of the services to get access to even just the content you want.

I’ve never felt I was missing out on anything with Spotify, as I likely wouldn’t with YouTube music either. Maybe some have less but it’s at least a very comparable catalogue across the board.

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- rainynight65@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Weird thing about music streaming in comparison to video streaming is that music streaming services are all third parties. There’s little to no exclusivity in that market because the streaming services all license from the same sources. The big music publishers haven’t gone and created their own streaming services, but are (more or less) happily working with Spotify, Apple Music etc.
  
  That’s simply not happening in the video streaming market.
  
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ElHexo@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
capitalist-laugh

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alienanimals@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
More competition == price increase

Less competition == price increase

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- Lintson@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is the way
  
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Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is it really competition when for example Disney has a monopoly on Disney Streaming Content?

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- David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do you mean, there are other streaming services aren’t there?
  
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  - Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes there is competition for streaming but not for the specific content of the service. With music I can choose Spotify or Deezer or whatever, but for Disney content I can only use Disney+ or for Paramount Content only Paramount+, so the have a monopoly for their respective content.
    
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    David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s most industries though. That’s like saying Toyota has a monopoly on Toyotas but, I can just buy a Ford that does the same exact thing. That’s not what monopoly means.
    
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Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That possibly would’ve worked if the platforms all had an agreement to share the same content and not monopolize exclusives. If that were the case you’d choose the one with the best price and the best features.0

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