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Future Outlook of KSA Automotive Industry: Ken Research

KSA Automotive Industry: Overview & Ecosystem

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, currently enjoys a strategic position in terms of geography & development of industries with growing economy & improving trade participation in the world. Their automotive industry provides opportunity of high growth with the absence of domestic manufacturing & core dependence on imports for domestic vehicle needs. However, rapid digitization along with various government incentives are set to change the gears of development in the coming years.

KSA is looking forward to develop domestic manufacturing & exporting capabilities for South Africa & other African & gulf nations with stronger tax & driving policies, development of industrial hubs, efficient bilateral relationships & allies, technological competence & its enhancement.

Saudi Arabia Imports & Sales Industry

KSA Automotive industry imports& export volume for automotive vehicles is majorly driven by International OEMS from countries like USA, Japan, Korea, Germany, China & India. The overall ecosystem of KSA automotive industry includes global auto manufacturers like Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai & more, along with many sports & luxury car manufacturers. They are facilitated by local dealers & agents as there is a lack of domestic assembling & major vehicle needs are currently fulfilled via imports.

Largest importing country in terms of vehicles is Japan, home to Toyota, which amounts to the biggest share of vehicle sales in KSA. USA, Korea & china along with Germany, Thailand & India are the other major countries who imports vehicles in KSA. The development of various ports on east & west coast provides ease of importing & connected road network with other gulf countries, helps in providing cross country movements as well Sales & distributing efforts are undertaken by local trading partners in KSA like Abdul Latif Jameel (Toyota), Mohammad Yusuf Naghi (Hyundai) & more, who utilizes their local networks to provide the effeciency & optimization in sales.

Marker segmentation of KSA automotive industry explains the geographical consistency across the country. It was witnessed that Central, Eastern and western region of KSA dominate the market with more than 80% share of sales and are majorly driven by cities like Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Medina/Makkah.

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KSA Automotive Aftermarket Spare Parts & Service Industry

KSA Automotive spare parts industry is largely dominated by small retailers selling parts across the country. It was witnessed that there are ~7,000 small retailers in the country with majority of them situated around Jeddah, Dammam & Makkah/Medina.

In terms of car workshops, organized players cater to tier 1 & 2 cities, while other areas are dominated by local & unorganized crash repair & other service providers Value chain & busieness models further provides analysis of various entities available in the market & defines their roles, sourcing habits, retail & dealership networks along with revenue sharing & earning models/pathways & specifies margins at various intervals along with growth potential & strategic ways of diversifying into new business streams.

The Market size of KSA Spare Parts market grew by a CAGR of ~11% for 2014-2019, helping the market grow ~1.7X. It was also witnessed that imports made up more than 50% of the market in terms of volume. With increased ownership period and advanced used to new car ration of 2:1, total car parc in KSA is set to grow a north of 12 mn by the end of 2021.

KSA government is also making genuine efforts to kick start the domestic manufacturing process to include further entities in the ecosystem and sustain the current manufacturers as well to provide them various incentives to grow operations Import & Export analysis of the automotive industry in KSA gives a higher-level idea regarding the annual throughputs at all the major ports, identifies the major commercial hubs & areas of importance while indulging in to international trade.

Key Segments Covered:

KSA Imports & Sales Industry (Distributors & Dealerships)

Import & Export Analysis

Competition Analysis of Major OEM Brands

Future Trends & Developments & Growth Factors

KSA Automotive Aftermarket Spare Parts & Service Industry

Spare parts Industry

Aftermarket Service Industry

Competition Analysis of Major Players via Cross Comparisons & Heat Maps

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KSA Automotive Leasing & Rental Industry

KSA Rental Industry (Market Size, Competition & Segmentation)

KSA Leasing Industry (Market Size, Competition & Segmentation)

Impact of Covid-19 on KSA Automotive Industry

Impact of Covid 19 on KSA Automotive Industry

Mobility Industry looks forward to Utilize Digital Platforms

Post Covid KSA Automotive Industry Outlook

Technology Adoption & Usage Trends in KSA Automotive Industry

Overview of Industry

KSA Automotive Technology Trends, Adoption & Recommendations

Key Target Audience

KSA Car Dealerships

KSA Automotive Industry

KSA Automotive Workshops

KSA Spare Parts Retailers

KSA Automotive Logistic Service Providers

KSA Car Rental Players

KSA Car Leasing Players

KSA ERP Service Providers

KSA Technology Consultants

KSA Foreign Relation Ministry

KSA Customs Department

KSA Ports Authority

KSA Automotive Industry

KSA Imports & Export Authority

KSA Hardware Technology Manufacturers

KSA Software Technology Manufacturers

KSA Cloud Storage Providing Enterprises

KSA Public Institutions

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Time Period Captured in the Report:

Historical Period: 2014-2019

Forecast Period: 2019-2025

Companies Mentioned:

Importers/Car Dealership

Abdul Latif Jameel Motors

Almajdouie Automotive

Wallan Trading Co.

Mohamed Yousuf Naghi Motors

Haji Husain Alireza & Co.

(Mazda, MAN, Aston Martin)

Nissan Petromin

Manahil International

Aljomaih Automotive Company

Universal Motors Agencies

Kia Al Jabr

Al Yemni Motors

Alissa Universal Motors Co.

Bakhashab Brothers Co.

Alesayi Motor Company

Al Jazirah Vehicles Agency

Juffali Automotive Company

Spare Part Retailers/Wholesalers

Balubaid

Barik International

Babatin Auto Parts

Speero

Juffali Auto Parts Company (JAPCO)

Samaco

M S Almeshri & Bros Co.

AL-OLIAH Auto Spare Parts

Delmon Group of Companies

SNAM

Ubuy

Munif Al Nahdi Group (Mize)

Odiggo

Accidom

Bawazeer Auto Parts

Bin sahib

AHQ Parts

Danya Auto Parts

Rezayat Automotive

Saudi Parts Center Company (Al Khorayef Group)

Aftermarket Service Providers

Branded Workshops

AutoFix

SAC Motor

Castrol

BEC (Best Engine Centre)

Sheikh Center (SKBMW)

Abu Jihad Car Maintenance Center

Ac Delco Service Centres

Tyre Plus

3M Authorized Centre

Mize

AdinLub

Car Spa

Car Hub

Ezhalha

Petromin Express

Auto Hub

Exxon Mobil

Autoworld

Castrol Branded Workshops

Shell Fastlube

Fuchs One

NAFT

Ziebart

Grease Monkey

Quick Car Service

Morni

Agency Repair

Samaco

United Motors Express Service Lane

Al Jazeera

Renault

Kia Motors

Fast Auto Technic

Mohammed Yousaf Naghi Motors

Porsche

Land Rover

Quick lane

Nissan Petromin

Haji Husain Alireza & Co.

Universal Motors Agencies

Aljomaih Automotive Company Ltd.

Alesayi Motors

Al Yemni Motors

Alissa Universal Motors Co.

Bakhashab Brothers Co

Al Juffali & Brothers Automotive Ltd.

Wallan Hyundai

Un-Organized/ Independent Players

Middle East Auto Services

Carzzone

German Centre

Cartech

Alod Haib

Al-Aruba Sinnaiyah

Saudi Chinese Vehicle Repair

Al Shamel Car Maintenance Center

Al Nafie Car Maintenance Workshop

Alsajow Center for Car Maintenance

Red Car

Saudi Egyptian Center for Car Maintenance

SRT 8

Al Bayan Car Maintenance

Mujahid Garage

1 Check Car Services (One Examination Workshop)

Saudi radiators

Global Auto Maintenance

Mohammed Al- Tkhais Abu Rakan

Anwar Al Mamlaka Center

Quick Cars Service

Best Corner Car Maintenance

American Diamond Specialist Center

Cars electricity and air conditioning

Badr Sentop workshop BST

Grace Monkey (International Company)

Super Service Auto Center

XEOEX

German Centre

AutoGard

Rental & Leasing Industry

Rental Players

Budget rent a car

Theeb rent a car

Al Wefaq rent a car

Autoworld rent a car

Key rent a car

Avis rent a car

Hanco rent a car

Samara rent a car

Hertz rent a car

Autorent a car

Leasing Players

Ford Aljazirah

Budget Rent a Car

Universal Motors

Al Jomaih

Best rent a car

Al Tayyar rent a car

Enterprise rent a car

Hanco rent a car

Theeb rent a car

Shary rent a car

ERP & CRM Providing Technical Consultants

Britehouse

Techedge

Saudi Business Machine

Tyconz

Accenture

Tata Consultancy Services

Tech Mahindra

HCL

Unitrans

NTT Data

Deloitte

CDK Connect

Seidor

Wipro

Key Topics Covered in the Report:

Saudi Arabia Automotive Industry Overview

Saudi Arabia Imports & Sales Industry (Distributors & Dealerships)

Automotive Imports & Sales Industry Ecosystem, KSA

Value Chain Analysis of KSA Automotive Imports & Sales

Annual Automotive Imports Traffic for Major KSA Ports

Analysis of Imported Goods & Major Countries Importing in KSA

Value & Volume of Vehicles Imported, KSA

Segmentation of Imports on the basis of Vehicle Type, KSA

Automotive Vehicle Manufacturing Clusters Analysis, KSA

New Motor Vehicle Sales, KSA

Market Segmentation of Automotive Sales on the basis of Region, KSA

Demographics of KSA Citizens Supporting Automotive Industry, (2019)

Segmentation of Vehicle Sales on the basis of Brands & Vehicle Type, KSA

Market share of International OEMs in New Vehicle Sales, KSA (2019)

Competition Analysis of Automotive Imports & Sales Industry, KSA (2019)

Profiles of Major Dealerships & Distributors

Business Model & Revenue Stream of Importers/Distributors/Dealerships

Trends & Developments in Automotive Vehicle Industry

Future of Imports & Sales

KSA Automotive Aftermarket Spare Parts & Service Industry

KSA Aftermarket Industry Ecosystem

Aftermarket Spare Parts Industry

KSA Aftermarket Service Industry

Future Trends of Aftermarket Spare Parts & Service Industry

KSA Automotive Leasing & Rental Industry

Macroeconomic Overview of the Rental & Leasing Industry

KSA Automotive Leasing (Long Term) Industry

KSA Rental Industry

Future of Leasing & Rental Industry

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Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies

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Another characteristically brilliant Kashmir Hill story for The New York Times reveals another characteristically terrible fact about modern life: your car secretly records fine-grained telemetry about your driving and sells it to data-brokers, who sell it to insurers, who use it as a pretext to gouge you on premiums:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

Almost every car manufacturer does this: Hyundai, Nissan, Ford, Chrysler, etc etc:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2020/09/09/ford-state-farm-ford-metromile-honda-verisk-among-insurer-oem-telematics-connections/

This is true whether you own or lease the car, and it's separate from the "black box" your insurer might have offered to you in exchange for a discount on your premiums. In other words, even if you say no to the insurer's carrot – a surveillance-based discount – they've got a stick in reserve: buying your nonconsensually harvested data on the open market.

I've always hated that saying, "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product," the reason being that it posits decent treatment as a customer reward program, like the little ramekin warm nuts first class passengers get before takeoff. Companies don't treat you well when you pay them. Companies treat you well when they fear the consequences of treating you badly.

Take Apple. The company offers Ios users a one-tap opt-out from commercial surveillance, and more than 96% of users opted out. Presumably, the other 4% were either confused or on Facebook's payroll. Apple – and its army of cultists – insist that this proves that our world's woes can be traced to cheapskate "consumers" who expected to get something for nothing by using advertising-supported products.

But here's the kicker: right after Apple blocked all its rivals from spying on its customers, it began secretly spying on those customers! Apple has a rival surveillance ad network, and even if you opt out of commercial surveillance on your Iphone, Apple still secretly spies on you and uses the data to target you for ads:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product – provided the company can get away with treating you as the product. Apple can absolutely get away with treating you as the product, because it lacks the historical constraints that prevented Apple – and other companies – from treating you as the product.

As I described in my McLuhan lecture on enshittification, tech firms can be constrained by four forces:

I. Competition

II. Regulation

III. Self-help

IV. Labor

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

When companies have real competitors – when a sector is composed of dozens or hundreds of roughly evenly matched firms – they have to worry that a maltreated customer might move to a rival. 40 years of antitrust neglect means that corporations were able to buy their way to dominance with predatory mergers and pricing, producing today's inbred, Habsburg capitalism. Apple and Google are a mobile duopoly, Google is a search monopoly, etc. It's not just tech! Every sector looks like this:

https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/learn/monopoly-by-the-numbers

Eliminating competition doesn't just deprive customers of alternatives, it also empowers corporations. Liberated from "wasteful competition," companies in concentrated industries can extract massive profits. Think of how both Apple and Google have "competitively" arrived at the same 30% app tax on app sales and transactions, a rate that's more than 1,000% higher than the transaction fees extracted by the (bloated, price-gouging) credit-card sector:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/07/curatorial-vig/#app-tax

But cartels' power goes beyond the size of their warchest. The real source of a cartel's power is the ease with which a small number of companies can arrive at – and stick to – a common lobbying position. That's where "regulatory capture" comes in: the mobile duopoly has an easier time of capturing its regulators because two companies have an easy time agreeing on how to spend their app-tax billions:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/regulatory-capture/

Apple – and Google, and Facebook, and your car company – can violate your privacy because they aren't constrained regulation, just as Uber can violate its drivers' labor rights and Amazon can violate your consumer rights. The tech cartels have captured their regulators and convinced them that the law doesn't apply if it's being broken via an app:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/18/cursed-are-the-sausagemakers/#how-the-parties-get-to-yes

In other words, Apple can spy on you because it's allowed to spy on you. America's last consumer privacy law was passed in 1988, and it bans video-store clerks from leaking your VHS rental history. Congress has taken no action on consumer privacy since the Reagan years:

https://www.eff.org/tags/video-privacy-protection-act

But tech has some special enshittification-resistant characteristics. The most important of these is interoperability: the fact that computers are universal digital machines that can run any program. HP can design a printer that rejects third-party ink and charge $10,000/gallon for its own colored water, but someone else can write a program that lets you jailbreak your printer so that it accepts any ink cartridge:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Tech companies that contemplated enshittifying their products always had to watch over their shoulders for a rival that might offer a disenshittification tool and use that as a wedge between the company and its customers. If you make your website's ads 20% more obnoxious in anticipation of a 2% increase in gross margins, you have to consider the possibility that 40% of your users will google "how do I block ads?" Because the revenue from a user who blocks ads doesn't stay at 100% of the current levels – it drops to zero, forever (no user ever googles "how do I stop blocking ads?").

The majority of web users are running an ad-blocker:

https://doc.searls.com/2023/11/11/how-is-the-worlds-biggest-boycott-doing/

Web operators made them an offer ("free website in exchange for unlimited surveillance and unfettered intrusions") and they made a counteroffer ("how about 'nah'?"):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

Here's the thing: reverse-engineering an app – or any other IP-encumbered technology – is a legal minefield. Just decompiling an app exposes you to felony prosecution: a five year sentence and a $500k fine for violating Section 1201 of the DMCA. But it's not just the DMCA – modern products are surrounded with high-tech tripwires that allow companies to invoke IP law to prevent competitors from augmenting, recongifuring or adapting their products. When a business says it has "IP," it means that it has arranged its legal affairs to allow it to invoke the power of the state to control its customers, critics and competitors:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

An "app" is just a web-page skinned in enough IP to make it a crime to add an ad-blocker to it. This is what Jay Freeman calls "felony contempt of business model" and it's everywhere. When companies don't have to worry about users deploying self-help measures to disenshittify their products, they are freed from the constraint that prevents them indulging the impulse to shift value from their customers to themselves.

Apple owes its existence to interoperability – its ability to clone Microsoft Office's file formats for Pages, Numbers and Keynote, which saved the company in the early 2000s – and ever since, it has devoted its existence to making sure no one ever does to Apple what Apple did to Microsoft:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

Regulatory capture cuts both ways: it's not just about powerful corporations being free to flout the law, it's also about their ability to enlist the law to punish competitors that might constrain their plans for exploiting their workers, customers, suppliers or other stakeholders.

The final historical constraint on tech companies was their own workers. Tech has very low union-density, but that's in part because individual tech workers enjoyed so much bargaining power due to their scarcity. This is why their bosses pampered them with whimsical campuses filled with gourmet cafeterias, fancy gyms and free massages: it allowed tech companies to convince tech workers to work like government mules by flattering them that they were partners on a mission to bring the world to its digital future:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/10/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers/

For tech bosses, this gambit worked well, but failed badly. On the one hand, they were able to get otherwise powerful workers to consent to being "extremely hardcore" by invoking Fobazi Ettarh's spirit of "vocational awe":

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

On the other hand, when you motivate your workers by appealing to their sense of mission, the downside is that they feel a sense of mission. That means that when you demand that a tech worker enshittifies something they missed their mother's funeral to deliver, they will experience a profound sense of moral injury and refuse, and that worker's bargaining power means that they can make it stick.

Or at least, it did. In this era of mass tech layoffs, when Google can fire 12,000 workers after a $80b stock buyback that would have paid their wages for the next 27 years, tech workers are learning that the answer to "I won't do this and you can't make me" is "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" (AKA "sharpen your blades boys"):

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-twitter/

With competition, regulation, self-help and labor cleared away, tech firms – and firms that have wrapped their products around the pluripotently malleable core of digital tech, including automotive makers – are no longer constrained from enshittifying their products.

And that's why your car manufacturer has chosen to spy on you and sell your private information to data-brokers and anyone else who wants it. Not because you didn't pay for the product, so you're the product. It's because they can get away with it.

Cars are enshittified. The dozens of chips that auto makers have shoveled into their car design are only incidentally related to delivering a better product. The primary use for those chips is autoenshittification – access to legal strictures ("IP") that allows them to block modifications and repairs that would interfere with the unfettered abuse of their own customers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

The fact that it's a felony to reverse-engineer and modify a car's software opens the floodgates to all kinds of shitty scams. Remember when Bay Staters were voting on a ballot measure to impose right-to-repair obligations on automakers in Massachusetts? The only reason they needed to have the law intervene to make right-to-repair viable is that Big Car has figured out that if it encrypts its diagnostic messages, it can felonize third-party diagnosis of a car, because decrypting the messages violates the DMCA:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy

Big Car figured out that VIN locking – DRM for engine components and subassemblies – can felonize the production and the installation of third-party spare parts:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

The fact that you can't legally modify your car means that automakers can go back to their pre-2008 ways, when they transformed themselves into unregulated banks that incidentally manufactured the cars they sold subprime loans for. Subprime auto loans – over $1t worth! – absolutely relies on the fact that borrowers' cars can be remotely controlled by lenders. Miss a payment and your car's stereo turns itself on and blares threatening messages at top volume, which you can't turn off. Break the lease agreement that says you won't drive your car over the county line and it will immobilize itself. Try to change any of this software and you'll commit a felony under Section 1201 of the DMCA:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/02/innovation-unlocks-markets/#digital-arm-breakers

Tesla, naturally, has the most advanced anti-features. Long before BMW tried to rent you your seat-heater and Mercedes tried to sell you a monthly subscription to your accelerator pedal, Teslas were demon-haunted nightmare cars. Miss a Tesla payment and the car will immobilize itself and lock you out until the repo man arrives, then it will blare its horn and back itself out of its parking spot. If you "buy" the right to fully charge your car's battery or use the features it came with, you don't own them – they're repossessed when your car changes hands, meaning you get less money on the used market because your car's next owner has to buy these features all over again:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

And all this DRM allows your car maker to install spyware that you're not allowed to remove. They really tipped their hand on this when the R2R ballot measure was steaming towards an 80% victory, with wall-to-wall scare ads that revealed that your car collects so much information about you that allowing third parties to access it could lead to your murder (no, really!):

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms

That's why your car spies on you. Because it can. Because the company that made it lacks constraint, be it market-based, legal, technological or its own workforce's ethics.

One common critique of my enshittification hypothesis is that this is "kind of sensible and normal" because "there’s something off in the consumer mindset that we’ve come to believe that the internet should provide us with amazing products, which bring us joy and happiness and we spend hours of the day on, and should ask nothing back in return":

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-have-great-conversations/

What this criticism misses is that this isn't the companies bargaining to shift some value from us to them. Enshittification happens when a company can seize all that value, without having to bargain, exploiting law and technology and market power over buyers and sellers to unilaterally alter the way the products and services we rely on work.

A company that doesn't have to fear competitors, regulators, jailbreaking or workers' refusal to enshittify its products doesn't have to bargain, it can take. It's the first lesson they teach you in the Darth Vader MBA: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure

Your car spying on you isn't down to your belief that your carmaker "should provide you with amazing products, which brings your joy and happiness you spend hours of the day on, and should ask nothing back in return." It's not because you didn't pay for the product, so now you're the product. It's because they can get away with it.

The consequences of this spying go much further than mere insurance premium hikes, too. Car telemetry sits at the top of the funnel that the unbelievably sleazy data broker industry uses to collect and sell our data. These are the same companies that sell the fact that you visited an abortion clinic to marketers, bounty hunters, advertisers, or vengeful family members pretending to be one of those:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/07/safegraph-spies-and-lies/#theres-no-i-in-uterus

Decades of pro-monopoly policy led to widespread regulatory capture. Corporate cartels use the monopoly profits they extract from us to pay for regulatory inaction, allowing them to extract more profits.

But when it comes to privacy, that period of unchecked corporate power might be coming to an end. The lack of privacy regulation is at the root of so many problems that a pro-privacy movement has an unstoppable constituency working in its favor.

At EFF, we call this "privacy first." Whether you're worried about grifters targeting vulnerable people with conspiracy theories, or teens being targeted with media that harms their mental health, or Americans being spied on by foreign governments, or cops using commercial surveillance data to round up protesters, or your car selling your data to insurance companies, passing that long-overdue privacy legislation would turn off the taps for the data powering all these harms:

https://www.eff.org/wp/privacy-first-better-way-address-online-harms

Traditional economics fails because it thinks about markets without thinking about power. Monopolies lead to more than market power: they produce regulatory capture, power over workers, and state capture, which felonizes competition through IP law. The story that our problems stem from the fact that we just don't spend enough money, or buy the wrong products, only makes sense if you willfully ignore the power that corporations exert over our lives. It's nice to think that you can shop your way out of a monopoly, because that's a lot easier than voting your way out of a monopoly, but no matter how many times you vote with your wallet, the cartels that control the market will always win:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the-map-is-not-the-territory/#apor-locksmith

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/12/market-failure/#car-wars

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