"There's an implicit bargain that every monopolist makes… I will be a benevolent dictator who spends…windfall profits on maintaining product quality and security… [M]onopolists always violate this bargain. When faced with the decision to either invest in quality+security, or hand billions of dollars to their shareholders, they'll always take the latter. Why wldn't they? Once they have a monopoly, they don't have to worry abt losing customers to a competitor" @pluralistichttps://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/#fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again