"The true efficiency of mergers isn't in companies getting better at making things that make you happy. The real purpose of boiling down a big, vibrant industry into a handful of sclerotic, inbred giants is so that they can agree on a common lobbying position, and stick to it."
Yep, we should all have our neighborhood watches on the lookout for the word "efficiency." Efficient for whom? Not consumers and definitely not laborers. Efficiently mass producing income inequality.
Also I really like the "downstream" parallelism at the start of this article. All this shit is connected. Thanks, @pluralistic!
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/cause-and-effect/#things-have-causes
