> No upstart carrier could possibly compete with the alliances; they couldn’t afford the massive startup costs to build or lease their own mega-ship. This is such a common pattern with optimization. Something starts small-ish, but gets optimized and optimized to the point that newcomers aren’t viable and everything gets locked in. It happens all over the economy, and the unprecedented scale of everything only makes t…
Giant corps in adjacent industries. Look at how a bookstore (Amazon) now runs a logistics operation that competes with USPS, UPS, and Fedex.
Seems like that's more of the same problem. Now one Corp is getting so big they can block out smaller corps and they are basically impossible to compete with