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Big Tech are the new Soviets – We're in a planned economy now
- fridental 10mo agoCommunist bullshit. While oligopolies in the ecommerce, AI, Operating Systems, Clouds, and Space are concerning, they are far from the Gosplan.
- salawat 10mo agoWe've been one since the DEA was established, and the FTC started letting everything merge. All the big actors are few enough in number that collusion/centralized planning dynamics simply emerge given it's the same handfuls of people calling the shots.