Regulatory capture cuts both ways: it's not just about powerful corporations being free to flout the law, it's also about their ability to *enlist* the law to punish competitors that might constrain their plans for exploiting their workers, customers, suppliers or other stakeholders.

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The final historical constraint on tech companies was their own workers. Tech has very low union-density, but that's in part because individual tech workers enjoyed so much bargaining power due to their scarcity.

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