HN is, unfortunately, now sadly inhabited by many un-inquisitive cowards. Why is collusion of buyers (group influence over supply) not fundamentally different

HN is, unfortunately, now sadly inhabited by many un-inquisitive cowards. Why is collusion of buyers (group influence over supply) not fundamentally different than collusion of sellers (restriction of supply)? I don't agree with pretty much anything being done, by either side, but it's interesting. It used to be much more interesting, here; filled with people who asked "why" things occur, and if things form coherent patterns, what this could mean? Now, it is evidently a boring leftist DEI soy-boy echo chamber. If one engages in wrongthink, one gets silently downvoted, evidently by people who hold opinions they cannot robustly support...