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Every other industry has had crooks, much worse than our tech companies today.

The thing that changed, is that some tech companies can scale faster than any other industry before it (rail roads takes a long time to build).

That said, we're at the edge of history, 150 years ago it looked as if the railroad tycoons would own the future.

Even without regulation, railroad tycoons would not be dominating our economy today..



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