Molly Conger

You said monopsony.

And I was like, oh, man, she's so tired.

That's not even a word.

Or sometimes it's quite literal.

Like we only have one power company in Virginia.

It was a diaper company that offered affordable mail-order diapers.

And they undercut them really hard for a concentrated period of time.

So they went out of business and they jacked up the prices on diapers.

I guess it's like, you know, the capitalism enthusiast likes to imagine that the economy is like, you know, Darwinian evolution, survival of the fittest, right?

We evolve and compete and the best man wins.

But actually, it's more like intentionally introducing mongooses to the islands of Hawaii.

Yeah, like that's, yeah.

This isn't evolution.

You just introduced a giant weasel that ate all the bird eggs.

Right, but in most towns, there's one major employer who kind of sets the bar.

Yeah.

Okay, I'm usually against a neologism, but I understand the need for this word.

I mean, I guess you have to do studies to prove things.

You can't just vibe it out.

But I would say just the general vibe, like I could have told you that.