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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoDo people here, on Lemmy of all places, still not worry about Valve being a monopoly? It worries me, deeply. Especially with how the community already makes up excuses for them doing anticompetitive things. There is only one way that ends. I can’t think of a single example of a “happy sustainable monopoly” in history, but at best they must be vanishingly rare.
Do people here, on Lemmy of all places, still not worry about Valve being a monopoly?
It worries me, deeply. Especially with how the community already makes up excuses for them doing anticompetitive things.
There is only one way that ends.
I can’t think of a single example of a “happy sustainable monopoly” in history, but at best they must be vanishingly rare.