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by switch11 2010 days ago
This is 100% identical to the illegal stuff robber barons used to do

when two railroads were in competition and it was killing profits, they would sign a silent partnership and one would take upstate NY and the other would take NYC to other parts of NY

both made profits

Read the biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt

he did a lot of this