@ChrisMayLA6 I'm increasingly of the opinion that late-stage capitalism is entirely based on finding and exploiting externalities. The whole mess with food delivery platforms fits into this theory, and before that the taxi apps. None of them has reduced prices OR improved service quality - they've both done distinctly the opposite, once they got past their initial 'burn seed funding to monopolise the market' stage. It's systemic at the level of the entire economy, one sector after another.