that's certainly true, but there are no economies of scale to that model, so those small, disaggregated market players will have little to no effect overall. at

that's certainly true, but there are no economies of scale to that model, so those small, disaggregated market players will have little to no effect overall. at best, collectively they may have a minor bounding effect on wages but that's unlikely to change the overall market dynamics (even the US, as the largest oil consuming country in the world by far, cannot dictate the price of a barrel of oil).