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That assumes a free and efficient market. Good luck with that.

The big tech monopolists can literally buy off any emerging competition. They have massive political influence that they can leverage to shape the market based on their needs. Not that there would be any political appetite to challenge national "champions" in times of rising international tension anyway. They are too big to fail.

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until they aren't.

don't discount the possibility of a total rout for those who put all eggs in such a shoddy basket.

interesting to note the limits of political influence now that the megabill stripped the ai moratorium nonsense.

i suspect that the brick and mortar politicos are a bit like "thanks for the money, now bugg off, kid, before i beat you up"

it will be interesting to see what sort of revenge the worlds richest man is cooking for his uppity fixer dude.

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