• planish@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    If there are a lot of customers, and a lot of unemployed people, and not enough jobs, do we have some kind of shortage of firms?

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      I think we have shortage of options people actually like.

      It’s not that people need more options, but the ones that are available are starting to exploit their monopolistic/duopolistic positions.

      People hate it, but they don’t have any real way out. For something to supplant these big companies in a way where it actually served customer at volume, it would have to grow as big, without becoming as bad or getting aquired.

      One of customers commented that a business he used before, that was very similar to mine, recently got purchased and merged into one of the sucky local giants.