• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    3 hours ago

    Because it’s one of the only functional monopolies that got there by attracting users rather than M&As to quash competitors and regulatory capture. Monopolies shouldn’t just intrinsically make you angry, they just are usually bad because they will have done anticompetitive things in order to become a monopoly.

    As the article concludes:

    Valve Corporation didn’t win by locking people in. It won by making sure they never really wanted to leave.