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▲ augment_me a day ago

I don't think that you can claim this.

Alphabet is $3.6T, Meta is $1.6T, X+SpaceX+Tesla is $3.6T. All of these companies are doing just as well despite their CEO monopolist setup.

The legal infractions, also known as cost of business, is a part of the calculation, and are usually too small to be meaningful. Meta's last New Mexico lawsuit essentially managed to get flipped into a requirement for producing ID upon registration to the platform in order to "protect the kids", as well as the amount to pay currently being pushed down by pouring money on the lawyers. This is something that was really hard to push on the public before due to privacy concerns, and now yields an even better tool for mapping, control and harvesting of behavioural surplus. Again, cost of business to consolidate power.

If Jensen had had this structure, gotten some lawyers together and thought a little, they would most likely, as all the other big tech corps have, have been able to twist and turn this in a similar way.