[jack_tripper]

>When healthy competition exists, you can't just arbitrarily charge people more, because they'll just go buy from a competitor.

Competition is meaningless when they're all owned by Blackrock and Vanguard to an extent. They can easily sacrifice a brand to test the waters, knowing consumers will move to buy from their other brands which the also own.

[reactordev]

Macro capitalism is pretty crazy stuff. Look at the US food industry how it’s primarily 5 companies that own ALL the brands.