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If you're a Very Online person, it's easy to think that tech is a uniquely monopolized industry. How could you not - anyone over the age of 30 has had a front row seat for the transformation of the wild and wooly early web into "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."

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There's a chorus of captured economists who will tell you that Big Tech's monopolization was inevitable, the result of "network effects." They're wrong.

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