[gklitz]

Contrary to popular belief, if you try to rob a bank but end up not having a net profit due to a low score and high costs, like if your getaway car breaks down, it’s still illegal. Also if you rob a bank but it ends up having less than average robbery losses for the year, the robbery is still illegal.

Collusion is criminal, it does not matter if you make money on it or not, or if “the market could bear the costs of our collusion” or “the collusion was only possible because of other market inefficiencies”