"Step Right Up! Bargains Galore.."
  --- Tom Waits
comes to mind: 

> where prices go up as quality goes down

> It’s hard to remember that the internet was originally supposed to connect producers and shoppers, artists and audiences, and members of communities with one another without permission or control by third parties.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/opinion/amazon-ftc-antitrust-monopoly.html
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