What changed wasn't the character of the leaders of these businesses, nor their capacity to cheat us. What changed was the *consequences* for cheating. When the tech companies merged to monopoly, they ceased to fear losing your business to a competitor.
Google's 90% search market share was attained by bribing everyone who operates a service or platform where you might encounter a search box to connect that box to Google.
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