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> The problem with a food delivery network is that it should be a dumb network, not a big profit center.

Exactly.

Networks (markets) operators must be prohibited from competing on their own networks.

Apple's App Store must be spun off as a separate entity.

Amazon cannot offer their own competing products on their Marketplace.

Google must divest their digital advertising from their search engine (or vice versa).

Doctorow & Giblin's Chokepoint Capitalism is a terrific take on our current rentier economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokepoint_Capitalism





Nintendo ruined it for everyone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_....

Nintendo was the first widespread closed platform.




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