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Chemical Bill

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19. And creating monopolies.

Reply to meadowlander (Reply #10)

Thu Jan 1, 2026, 03:25 PM

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Amazon has a history of encouraging small entrepreneurs to sell their wares, but then Amazon finds the ones that sell well, and sells their own version at a lower price.

Gates gave loads of computers to schools, but did so to get those schools away from buying Apple computers and software.

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