You must’ve missed the part where Lina Khan built her entire career and reputation on an article she wrote for the Yale Law Journal as a law student arguing that Amazon should be split into separate companies and prevented from re-integrating.

She is considered a radical within the antitrust law world. She is vigorously opposed to vertically integrated monopolies of which Amazon is a star example. This case against Amazon is basically the final boss of her career and her legal movement, the New Brandeis Movement.

Big tech started before the 70s. IBM was founded in 1911. Hewlett-Packard in 1939. The 60s and 70s were when computers as a business tool (mainframes) really took off.

How much of the great decoupling is just due to big tech and the investment landscape around it?

I’m sorry you feel that way. I immediately felt at home on Lemmy. It legit gave me the feelings I had back when I first started using the internet in the mid 90’s. I thought that internet I knew was dead. But it seems a piece of it still lives on.

Photographers don’t pay that much for inkjet inks. They buy commercial grade printers which cost a lot more up front but have much cheaper continuous feed ink tanks.

Only naïve consumers pay those highly inflated prices for ink. Those people should be buying a cheap laser printer but they’re not well-informed about the situation and so they get the cheapest possible printer which happens to be an inkjet.