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The Growing Rebellion Against Costly, Low-Quality, Overly-Complex Technology

Many consumers have yet to grasp how vulnerable they are to increasingly routine digital-component failures.

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Mar 19, 2024
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One of the greatest myths about "free markets" is that enterprises create products and services to meet the needs of consumers. That sounds nice but that's not what happens in monopoly-cartel dominated economies like ours. In monopoly-cartel dominated economies like ours, what actually happens is the monopoly / cartel (i.e. a handful of quasi-monopolies…

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