| ▲ | MBCook a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
Please provide historical examples. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | MrBuddyCasino 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
The first known example is the 6th century BC, where a greek philosopher cornered the market on olive oil presses, because he predicted a richt harvest via his knowledge of astronomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market#Thales_of... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | YetAnotherNick 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef controls roughly 85% of the U.S. beef market CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx manage over 80% of all prescriptions in the U.S Amazon buys 50% of all books. These examples are even more extreme than at least 3 major clouds present in the US buying hardware. | |||||||||||||||||
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