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 silen

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