Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?

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      Consolidation in markets has led to high prices, poor service, poor competition and bloated oligopolies.

      Governments should be intervening to break up these oligopolies but have been captured by these vested interests.

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        Oh you mean that unregulated, capitalism gets out of hand and it needs the government to regulate these means of production to maintain fair markets and a working economy?

        Gee whiz, if only such a school of thought had a name.

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      Welcome to the money printing scheme so called ‘Quantitative Easing’. That’s what injects ‘empty money’ into real estate which doesn’t directly impacts basic good prices short term but it does in the long term through the rent costs (delayed effect 5 - 10 years)