Cory Doctorow

And we say to them, like, look at these harmful monopolies, look at professional wrestling or cheerleading.

And they say, well, how is that our fault?

Right.

It's like we used to not have a rat problem because we've been using rat poison.

And these guys were like, stop putting down rat poison.

And now rats are eating our faces off.

And we go back to them and they say, that's not our fault.

Like, it's sunspots that have ushered in the time of the rat, a moment in which rats are more fecund than at any time in human history.

And I will stipulate the rats did buy all the poison factories and shut them down.

But look, if we're not using rat poison, that's just economically rational.

Right.

So they say, oh, it's the iron laws of economics.

It's returns to scale.

It's the great forces of history.

So we got rid of competition.

So they don't really worry about competitors.

Mark Zuckerberg was able to buy Instagram.

Google was able to buy everything, right?

Take away Google's acquisitions.

This is a company that can't make a product in-house.